On Reading Mistakenly . . . and Otherwise
This response to Boer’s fine study accepts that his analysis of the “sacred economy” of ancient Israel is fully on target. This response asks, in turn, “How did we learn to read the Bible mistakenly?” and “How do we learn to read it more honestly and knowingly?” Our long-term mistaken reading, I sug...
| Published in: | Horizons in biblical theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Horizons in biblical theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-184 |
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positivistic history
materiality
extraction
subsistence
emancipation
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | This response to Boer’s fine study accepts that his analysis of the “sacred economy” of ancient Israel is fully on target. This response asks, in turn, “How did we learn to read the Bible mistakenly?” and “How do we learn to read it more honestly and knowingly?” Our long-term mistaken reading, I suggest, arises from our excessive commitment to positivistic history that caused a disregard of “on the ground” social reality. We may read more honestly and knowingly when we attend, as Boer shows us how to do, more fully to the insistent materiality of this society and of this textual attestation to that society. The “more” beyond Boer’s analysis includes a critical awareness of the claim in the text that the mystery of holiness pervades the text and its articulation of social reality, a holiness that cannot be legitimately disregarded in our reading. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2207 |
| Contains: | In: Horizons in biblical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341331 |