TREASURES OLD AND NEW (PB)

<p>In<i>Treasures Old and New</i>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.</p><p>Sample constellations of images include:<p>Creation: beginning creation firstborn new creation virgin birth</p><p>Fire: ashes burning bush fire tongues</p><p>Light: blindness darkness day light morning star night sight star sun</p><p>Treasure: gifts gold-frankincense-myrrh pearl rich fool treasure widow's coin</p><p>Water: exodus flood Jordan river sea water well</p><i>Treasures Old and New</i>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 Common Lectionary as well as the Roman Catholic lectionary.</p>