Grammars of Sacrifice: Futures, Subjunctives, and What Would Have/Could Have Happened on Mount Moriah?


In A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives, published seventeen years ago (unbelievably), I looked forward to what would become a significant turn back towards the biblical texts’ past futures. In this paper, I look at the density of futurity and modality in these past futures. The sacrifice of Isaac rea...

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Subtitles:The Futures of Biblical Studies
Main Author: Sherwood, Yvonne 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2017, Volume: 25, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 519-554
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HB Old Testament
KAA Church history
Further subjects:B Abraham Sarah Isaac sacrifice subjunctive modality

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