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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791036803321

Autore

Tongue Samuel

Titolo

Between biblical criticism and poetic rewriting : interpretative struggles over Genesis 32:22-32 / / by Samuel Tongue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-27115-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Biblical Interpretation Series, , 0928-0731 ; ; Volume 129

Disciplina

222/.1106

Soggetti

Poetry - History and criticism

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

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Bound to Retell -- 1 Dancing Between the Disciplines: Following the Mobile Bible -- 2 Biblical Studies and Postmodern Poetics; or, ‘Gentlemanly’ Readers Meet ‘Uncouth Hydra Readers’ -- 3 Poetic Paragesis and Disciplining the Imagination -- 4 Enacting Canonicity: Parageses in the Anatomy of Angels -- 5 Scripted Bodies: Paragesis and the Performative Poetics of Manhood -- Conclusion: The Dust Settles: Some Final Thoughts on Poetic Parageses of Jacob and the Angel -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Ancient Sources.

Sommario/riassunto

In Between Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting , Samuel Tongue offers an account of the aesthetic and critical tensions inherent in the development of the Higher Criticism of the Bible. Different ‘types’ of Bible are created through the intellectual and literary pressures of Enlightenment and Romanticism and, as Tongue suggests, it is this legacy that continues to orientate the approaches deemed legitimate in biblical scholarship. Using a number of ancient and contemporary critical and poetic rewritings of Jacob’s struggle with the ‘angel’ (Gen 32:22-32), Tongue makes use of postmodern theories of textual production to argue that it is the ‘paragesis’, a parasitical form of writing between disciplines, that best foregrounds the complex performativity of biblical interpretation.