‘What is Language but a Sound We Christen?’: Poetic Retellings as an Improper Surprise for Biblical Reception History
Although overtly poetic interaction with biblical material has often been deemed beyond the pale in critical biblical scholarship, much work in reception history now positions such literature as part of the afterlife of a biblical text. While this is a welcome turn, this article argues that acts of...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Brill
2015
|
| In: |
Biblical interpretation
Year: 2015, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 248-271 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible KAA Church history |
| Further subjects: | B
poetic retelling
supplement
biblical reception history
cultural history of scripture
|
| Online Access: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
|
| Summary: | Although overtly poetic interaction with biblical material has often been deemed beyond the pale in critical biblical scholarship, much work in reception history now positions such literature as part of the afterlife of a biblical text. While this is a welcome turn, this article argues that acts of poetic biblical retelling and recycling are more disruptive, troubling the ways in which critical scholarship operates. Utilising Timothy Beal’s thinking around the ‘cultural history of scripture’ and analysing Roland Boer’s sceptical attitude toward reception-historical practices, the first section teases out the nuances of how certain modes of biblical interpretation are deemed primary (and thus more legitimate) and others secondary (and thus anachronistic).
|
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | In: Biblical interpretation
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00232p06 |