Treasures Old And New

Foreword
Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION
The Three-Year Lectionary
Images
The Images In The Lectionary
Using This Volume

FORTY IMAGES
Battle
Body
City
Clothing
Covenant
Creation
Cross
Day Of The Lord
Emanation Of The Divine
Family
Fire
Fish
Food
Garden
Harvest
Heaven-Earth-Hell
Israel
Journey
Judge
Kingdom
Light
Marriage
Mother
Mountain
Name Of God
Outsider
The Poor
Prophet Resurrection Of The Body
Sacrifice
Servant
Shepherd
Spirit
Temple
Treasure
Tree
Water
Week
Wind
Wisdom

AFTERWORD

APPENDIXES AND INDEXES
Revised Common Lectionary Images
Roman Lectionary (Revised) Index
Biographical Appendix And Index
Acknowledgments And Endnotes
Bibliography
Index Of Images And Liturgical Terms

Additional Info
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 Common Lectionary as well as the Roman Catholic lectionary.