TY - BOOK AU - Schwartz,Regina,ed TI - The Book and the text: the Biblical and literary theory SN - 0631168621 AV - BS 535 .B66 PY - 1990/// CY - Oxford PB - Basil Blackwell KW - Bible as literature KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Criticism N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -