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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454169403321

Titolo

The new literary criticism and the Hebrew Bible [[electronic resource] /] / edited by J. Cheryl Exum and David J.A. Clines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England, : JSOT Press, 1993

ISBN

1-281-80372-3

9786611803728

0-567-47252-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, , 0309-0787 ; ; 143

Altri autori (Persone)

ExumJ. Cheryl

ClinesDavid J. A

Disciplina

221.6/6

Soggetti

Criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors to This Volume; The New Literary Criticism; Good to the Last Drop: Viewing the Sotah (Numbers 5.11-31) as the Glass Half Empty and Wondering How to View it Half Full; Intertextuality and the Book of Jeremiah: Animadversions on Text and Theory; A World Established on Water (Psalm 24): Reader-Response, Deconstruction and Bespoke Interpretation; Who's Afraid of 'The Endangered Ancestress'?; A Reader-Response Approach to Prophetic Conflict: The Case of Amos 7.10-17; Ruth Finds a Home: Canon, Politics, Method

Tracing the Voice of the Other: Isaiah 28 and the Covenant with DeathManasseh as Villain and Scapegoat; Moses and David: Myth and Monarchy; Curses and Kings: A Reading of 2 Samuel 15-16; Surviving Writing: The Anxiety of Historiography in the Former Prophets; Daughters and Fathers in Genesis... Or, What Is Wrong with This Picture?; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of this original volume is to illustrate what has been happening recently in Hebrew Bible studies under the influence of developments in literary theory in the last couple of decades. The



methods and practice of reader-response criticism and deconstruction, as well as of feminist, materialist and psychoanalytic approaches are represented here by essays from leading Hebrew Bible literary critics. Alice Bach, Robert Carroll, Francisco Garcia-Treto, David Jobling, Francis Landy, Stuart Lasine, Peter Miscall, Hugh Pyper, Robert Polzin, and Ilona Rashkow, together with the two editors,