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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824643603321

Autore

Love Mark Cameron

Titolo

The evasive text : Zechariah 1-8 and the frustrated reader / / Mark Cameron Love

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1999

ISBN

1-281-84146-3

9786611841461

0-567-63430-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 296

Disciplina

224

224.9806

224/.9806

Soggetti

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

Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; (ANTE)THESIS; THESIS; (IN)CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This work employs an eclectic mix of structuralist and post-structuralist theories in a doomed attempt to discover the symbolic logic at work in Zechariah 1-8's surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariah's intra- and intertextual logic, or lack thereof, are presented. It is finally concluded that Zechariah lacks a concrete symbolic logic, defies grammatical conventions and is 'unreadable' as it stands-and always was this way. One suggestion is that it was the intent of the author, conceived of in a postmodern way, to produce such a work. It is finally concluded that the 'post-proph