
On the Way to the Postmodern. Volume I.
David J. A. Clines(Author)
Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Published on 10. November 2025
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-1-914490-86-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the 50 chapters of these two volumes, David J. A. Clines presents a series of discourses, spanning three decades, from an increasingly postmodern perspective. Rather than using only methods of deconstruction, he combines traditional methods with postmodern ideas of analysis, resulting in a substantial reading of the Hebrew Bible.
Clines's selected sequence of articles and papers-ten of them not previously published-displays a golden thread of a scholar's journey in biblical interpretation. Some of the papers, like 'The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered', are far from postmodern in their outlook, and sit in intriguing juxtaposition with others such as 'The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies'.
The essays are organized in eight sections;
- Method, Literature, History (Vol. I.),
- Theology, Language, Psalms, Job, and, entertainingly, Divertimenti (Vol. II). They include 'Reading Esther from Left to Right', 'Beyond Synchronic Diachronic', 'Story and Poem: The Old Testament as Literature and as Scripture', 'In Search of the Indian Job', and 'Philology and Power'.
Further items in this first volume to highlight are: Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International Perspective
What Has (and Has Not) Happened at SBL International Meetings
The Force of the Text: A Response to Tamara C. Eskenazi
In Quest of the Historical Mordecai
This volume is a reprint of the original 1998 edition.
More details
Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
857 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-914490-86-6 (9781914490866)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
David J.A. Clines (1938-2022) was professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.