{"product_id":"seen-and-unseen-the-earth-as-the-ground-of-testing-9781601910684","title":"Seen and Unseen: The Earth as the Ground of Testing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marc Philip Boulos\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ocabs Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ocabs Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Biblical Criticism \u0026amp; Interpretation - New Testament\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Seen and Unseen, Marc Philip Boulos hears the twelve verses of Luke 8:41-56, the raising of Jairus's daughter and the healing of the hemorrhaging woman, through the consonantal triliteral roots that bind the Hebrew Bible, the Greek New Testament, and the Qurʾan into a single grammar of submission. Continuing the lexical method opened in \u003cem\u003eRise, Andalus, \u003c\/em\u003e this second volume refuses every theological scaffold that has been imposed on the text and works instead in the lineage of the \u003cem\u003eʿulamāʾ\u003c\/em\u003e of al-Andalus, who knew six centuries before the modern academy that the Hebrew of the Bible cannot be heard apart from the Arabic of the Qurʾan, and that the triliteral root governs both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is not interpretation but hearing. The seed is choked by the crowd of thorns. The \u003cem\u003eyaḥid\u003c\/em\u003e stands stripped before \u003cem\u003eal-wāḥid.\u003c\/em\u003e The daughter of Israel approaches in deference, where the disciple Judas approaches to lay claim. The bones in Ezekiel are dried up, and the Lord asks who can give them breath. Lazarus emerges from the cave of robbers, and the cave, it turns out, is the temple. Across these thresholds Boulos traces the same itinerary: the suffocation of instruction by the religious crowd, the transience of every human settlement, the surplus of grace that falls to the empty hand alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe earth in the title is not landscape. It is test. Ground beneath the feet of a transient people, the soil into which the seed is sown and from which the only daughter is raised. Each chapter is a verse, each verse a riddle, each riddle a \u003cem\u003emasal \u003c\/em\u003ethat overrules dynasty, possession, and self-reference. \u003cem\u003eSeen and Unseen\u003c\/em\u003e does not domesticate the text. It silences the noise so that the Master's voice can be heard, and breath can return.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ocabs Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892912177303,"sku":"9781601910684","price":1710.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781601910684.webp?v=1781189926","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/seen-and-unseen-the-earth-as-the-ground-of-testing-9781601910684","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}