03188nam 2200649 a 450 991045413240332120200520144314.01-281-95907-30-226-03588-3978661195907410.7208/9780226035888(CKB)1000000000579082(EBL)408357(OCoLC)476228661(SSID)ssj0000194663(PQKBManifestationID)11189389(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194663(PQKBWorkID)10232299(PQKB)10895585(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122931(MiAaPQ)EBC408357(DE-B1597)524738(OCoLC)304436468(DE-B1597)9780226035888(Au-PeEL)EBL408357(CaPaEBR)ebr10266068(CaONFJC)MIL195907(EXLCZ)99100000000057908220071012d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrLoving Yusuf[electronic resource] conceptual travels from present to past /Mieke BalChicago University of Chicago Pressc20081 online resource (272 p.)Afterlives of the BibleDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-03587-5 0-226-03586-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.First memories, second thoughts -- Falling in love -- Dreaming away -- Looking in : outrageous, preposterous -- The invention of sympathy -- Sign language -- Eyes wide shut -- Truth speak -- Loose canons : facing authority -- Dad pains -- References.When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In Loving Yusuf¸ Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and text, using the same story, in which Joseph spurns the advance of his master's wife who then falsely accuses him of rape, as her point of departure. She juxtaposes the Genesis tale to the rather different version told in the Qur'an and the depictions of it by Rembrandt and explores how Thomas Mann's great retelling in Joseph and His Brothers reworks these versions. Through this inquiry she develops concepts for the analysis of texts that are both strange and overly familiar-culturally remote yet constantly retold. As she puts personal memories in dialogue with scholarly exegesis, Bal asks how all of these different versions complicate her own and others' experience of the story, and how the different truths of these texts in their respective traditions illuminate the process of canonization. Afterlives of the Bible.RELIGION / GeneralbisacshElectronic books.RELIGION / General.222/.11092Bal Mieke1946-131246MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454132403321Loving Yusuf1940972UNINA