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The Book and the text : the Biblical and literary theory / edited by Regina Schwartz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Basil Blackwell, c1990.Description: x, 313 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0631168621
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS 535 .B66
Contents:
Contents:
Introduction: On Biblical Criticism/ Regina M. Schwartz
Dealing/with/women: Daughters in the Book of Judges / Mieke Bal --
Joseph's bones and the resurrection of the text: Remembering in the Bible / Regina M. Schwartz --
On prophetic stammering / Herbert Marks --
Time and space in Biblical (Hi)story telling: The grand chronology / Meir Sternberg --
Sodom as Nexus: The Web of design in Biblical narrative / Robert Alter --
The keeping of Nahor: The etiology of Biblical election / James C. Nohrnberg --
The hermeneutics of Midrash / Gerald L. Bruns --
The Songs of Songs: Lock or Key? Intertexuality, allegory and midrash / Daniel Boyarin --
J.L. Austin and the book of Jonah / Terry Eagleton --
Interpretative narrative / Paul Ricoeur --
The gospel in Greco-Roman culture / Mary Ann Tolbert --
'Buried with Christ': The politics of identity and the poverty of interpretation / Sheila Briggs.
Summary: A study of the Bible by literary and cultural critics. It includes a broad range of theoretical perspectives, such as feminism, Marxism, anthropological criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, poetics, historicism and hermeneutics.
List(s) this item appears in: Women and Gender
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Contents:

Introduction: On Biblical Criticism/ Regina M. Schwartz

Dealing/with/women: Daughters in the Book of Judges / Mieke Bal --

Joseph's bones and the resurrection of the text: Remembering in the Bible / Regina M. Schwartz --

On prophetic stammering / Herbert Marks --

Time and space in Biblical (Hi)story telling: The grand chronology / Meir Sternberg --

Sodom as Nexus: The Web of design in Biblical narrative / Robert Alter --

The keeping of Nahor: The etiology of Biblical election / James C. Nohrnberg --

The hermeneutics of Midrash / Gerald L. Bruns --

The Songs of Songs: Lock or Key? Intertexuality, allegory and midrash / Daniel Boyarin --

J.L. Austin and the book of Jonah / Terry Eagleton --

Interpretative narrative / Paul Ricoeur --

The gospel in Greco-Roman culture / Mary Ann Tolbert --

'Buried with Christ': The politics of identity and the poverty of interpretation / Sheila Briggs.

A study of the Bible by literary and cultural critics. It includes a broad range of theoretical perspectives, such as feminism, Marxism, anthropological criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, poetics, historicism and hermeneutics.

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