03953nam 2200745Ia 450 991096420580332120200520144314.097814384208441438420846(CKB)2670000000233827(EBL)3408128(SSID)ssj0000607750(PQKBManifestationID)11336598(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607750(PQKBWorkID)10590093(PQKB)10067068(OCoLC)794701357(MdBmJHUP)muse14089(Au-PeEL)EBL3408128(CaPaEBR)ebr10588676(MiAaPQ)EBC3408128(Perlego)2673983(DE-B1597)773946(DE-B1597)9781438420844(EXLCZ)99267000000023382719920707d1993 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSummoning ideas of the covenant and interpretive theory /edited by Ellen Spolsky1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc19931 online resource (292 p.)SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and cultureIncludes index.9780791415269 0791415260 9780791415252 0791415252 Includes bibliographical references.""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Content""; ""Power and Constraint: Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton""; ""Theoretical Perspectives""; ""Biblical Covenants as Performative Language""; ""Facing the Other: Levinas, Perelman, and Rosenzweig""; ""The Difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant""; ""The Perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning""; ""The Sign of the Covenant""; ""Covenants and Texts""; ""Redesigning Redemption: Covenant in the Testament of Moses""""Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe""""Binding and Unbinding: The Summons to Interpretation in The Merchant of Venice""; ""American Literature's Declaration of In/dependence: Stanley Cavell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Covenant of Consent""; ""Intertextuality and Reader Responsibility: Living On in Malamud's ""The Mourners""""; """" The New Covenant"" and theDilemma of Dissensus:Bercovitch, Roth, and Doctorow""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""Back Matter""; ""Back Cover""This book explores the variety of ways that the Jewish understanding of the Covenant relates to the notion of a contract or a shared grammar as developed in recent structural and post-structural theory. The book enters the debate on the relationship beween a variety of open-ended forms of text interpretation and traditional Jewish interpretive practice, expanding and deepening that debate. Until now, the discussion has focused primarily on Midrashic interpretation; these essays balance the assumption of the openness of interpretation with an exploration of the concurrent restrictions on interpretation imposed by a covenant. SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and CultureReligion and literatureLiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etcCovenant theology in literatureCovenantsReligious aspectsJudaismJudaismEssence, genius, natureReligion and literature.LiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Covenant theology in literature.CovenantsReligious aspectsJudaism.JudaismEssence, genius, nature.809/.93382Spolsky Ellen1943-1806950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964205803321Summoning4356391UNINA