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A Rack of Reviews

Karl J. Franklin

A collection of 58 book reviews on a variety of subjects, including linguistics, anthropology, missiology, american culture, translaton and biographies. Also includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography of more than 150 books related to storytelling, as well as a bibliography of 68 reviews previously published by the author.

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A Rack of Reviews summarizes the author's studies over a number of years in a variety of academic categories. There are eviews on linguistics, anthropology, translation, explorations (particularly of PNG), missions, orality (with an additional annotated bibliography on the subject), philosophy, theology, American culture and some biographies and essays as well.

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Karl J. Franklin

Karl Franklin is a Senior Faculty member of the Graduate Institute of Linguistics and an International Anthropology Consultant for SIL Intenational. He and his wife Joice worked in Papua New Guinea for 32 years among the Kewa people. He received his M.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the Australian National University. His many publications can be found by visiting the SIL International website at http://www.sil.org/biography/karl-franklin.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

1.Linguistics and Language

  1. 1.1Chafe on Discourse
  2. 1.2Fauconnier and Turner on Conceptual Blending
  3. 1.3Lakoff on Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
  4. 1.4Turner on The Artful Mind
  5. 1.5Huddleston and Pullman on English Grammar
  6. 1.6Köveces on Metaphor

2.Explorations

  1. 2.1Chatterton on Papua
  2. 2.2Holmes on “Primitive New Guinea”
  3. 2.3Beaver on Unexplored New Guinea
  4. 2.4Connolly and Anderson on First Contact (New Guinea Highlands)
  5. 2.5Mead on Cultural Patterns
  6. 2.6Endo on Silence

3.Orality

  1. 3.1Esolen on Children’s Imagination
  2. 3.2Lamb on The Art and Craft of Storytelling
  3. 3.3Wasik on How Stories Live and Die
  4. 3.4Haven on Story Proof
  5. 3.5Denning on Springboard Stories

4.Anthropology and Cross Cultural Studies

  1. 4.1Hiebert on Worldviews
  2. 4.2Hughes on American Myths
  3. 4.3Kraybill on the Renegade Amish
  4. 4.4Pilch on Healing in the New Testament
  5. 4.5Twiss on Rescuing the Gospel

5.Biography and Autobiography

  1. 5.1Lynip on Pittman
  2. 5.2Sanneh on Summoned From the Margin
  3. 5.3Dreher on Dante
  4. 5.4Pinsky on A Jew among the Evangelicals
  5. 5.5Franklin on Moving into Translation

6.Biblical Culture and Themes

  1. 6.1Carson on Christ and Culture
  2. 6.2Crouch on Culture Making
  3. 6.3T.S. Eliot on Christianity and Culture
  4. 6.4Ehrman on the New Testament Canon
  5. 6.5Jenkins on Laying Down the Sword
  6. 6.6Ryken on How to Read the Bible
  7. 6.7McKnight on Reading the Bible (The Blue Parakeet)

7.American Culture and Themes

  1. 7.1Abramson and Haskell on Appalachia
  2. 7.2Gawande on Being Mortal
  3. 7.3Gay on Dialogue, Catalogue & Monologue
  4. 7.4Nichols on Jesus Made in America
  5. 7.5Prothero on Religious Literacy

8.Missions and Missiology

  1. 8.1Lowney on Loyola
  2. 8.2Prior on Vanuatu
  3. 8.3Walls on Cross-Culture in Christian History
  4. 8.4Walls on The Missionary Movement
  5. 8.5David Brainerd
  6. 8.6Sheard on An Orality Primer for Missionaries

9.Translation

  1. 9.1Brunn on Bible Versions
  2. 9.2Pike on Bible Translation
  3. 9.3Hoffman on Mistranslations
  4. 9.4C.S. Lewis on Modern Translations
  5. 9.5Nida and Louw on Greek Semantic Domain Lexicon

10.Philosophy and Theology

  1. 10.1Liethart on Postmoderns and Solomon
  2. 10.2Malesic on Secret Faith
  3. 10.3Newgigin on the Gospel in a Pluralistic Society
  4. 10.4Ross on the Book of Job
  5. 10.5Guinness on Christian Persuasion
  6. 10.6Rosner on The Consolations of Theology
  7. 10.7Bell and Wittmer on Hell
  8. 10.8Chan and Sprinkle on Hell

11.Storytelling Annotated Bibliography

12.Published Reviews

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