Treasures Old and New: Images in the Lectionary

By Gail Ramshaw

Book Overview

In Treasures Old and New Gail Ramshaw illuminates forty primary images from the three-year lectionary. With each of the images she considers related terms, exploring a total of nearly two hundred words and phrases in light of biblical history, typological relationships, poetic nuances, metaphoric meanings, and liturgical year connections. Sample constellations of images include: Creation: beginning, creation, firstborn, new creation, virgin birth Fire: ashes, burning bush, fire, tongues Light: blindness, darkness, day, light, morning star, night, sight, star, sun Treasure: gifts, gold-frankincense-myrrh, pearl, rich fool, treasure, widow's coin Water: exodus, flood, Jordan, river, sea, water, well Treasures Old and New offers a guide to rich symbolic speech for those who preach and teach, yet remains accessible and inviting to the reader seeking a resource for devotion and meditation on the scriptures. Extensively indexed to support the Revised CommonLectionary as well as the Roman Catholic lectionary.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800631897
• ISBN13: 9780800631895
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"