Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular
Two Postmodern Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 1999
235 pages
978-0-567-02498-5 (ISBN)
Description
The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten into texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible echoes and is reinvented, just as in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) many explicit and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered. In Texts Reading Texts, these readings of the Bible, and the ways in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been read, are considered from the two postmodern perspectives of marginalization and deconstruction. By reading the two seemingly unrelated texts side by side from these perspectives, traditional readings of them both are disturbed and challenged.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-567-02498-5 (9780567024985)
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05/1999
Sheffield Academic Press
€201.90
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Person
Alison Jack is Professor of Bible and Literature and Principal of New College at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Content
- Cover
- Editorial Board
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
- Part I MARGINALIZATION
- Chapter 2 HOGG'S READINGS OF THE BIBLE
- Chapter 3 REVELATION READING THE HEBREW BIBLE
- Part II DECONSTRUCTION
- Chapter 4 READING THE CONFESSIONS DECONSTRUCTIVELY
- Chapter 5 READING REVELATION DECONSTRUCTIVELY
- Chapter 6 CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX 1: GENESIS RABBAH 19.9 AND 19.10
- APPENDIX 2: 4Q385 SECOND EZEKIEL 2
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEXES INDEX OF REFERENCES
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SUPPLEMENT SERIES
