
Between Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting
Interpretative Struggles over Genesis 32:22-32
Samuel Tongue(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 17. April 2014
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-90-04-27040-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-27040-4 (9789004270404)
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Samuel Tongue, Ph.D. (2012), Glasgow University, is Affiliate Teacher and Researcher at the University of Glasgow. He has published articles and co-edited volumes, on reception history, biblical masculinities, and poetics.