Rhetoric and hermeneutics: approaches to text, tradition and social construction in biblical and second temple literature
Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. Essays in Method -- 1. Bakhtin, the Bible, and Dialogic Truth -- 2. The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text -- 3. Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1-9 -- 4. Spying Out the Land: A Report from Genology...
| Résumé: | Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. Essays in Method -- 1. Bakhtin, the Bible, and Dialogic Truth -- 2. The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text -- 3. Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1-9 -- 4. Spying Out the Land: A Report from Genology -- 5. The Rhetoric of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature -- 6. Rhetorical Criticism and the Reading of the Qumran Scrolls -- II. Language and the Shaping of Community at Qumran 7. "Sectually Explicit" Literature from Qumran -- 8. "He Has Established for Himself Priests" : Human and Angelic Priesthood in the Qumran Sabbath Shirot -- 9. Constructing "We, You, and the Others" Through Non-Polemic Discourse -- 10. Apocalyptic Subjects: Social Construction of the Self in the Qumran Hodayot -- III. Fashioning and Refashioning Self and Agency 11. Models of the Moral Self: Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism -- 12. Flesh, Spirit, and the Indigenous Psychology of the Hodayot -- 13. Sin Consciousness, Self-Alienation, and the Origins of the Introspective Self -- IV. Recycling: The Hermeneutics of Memory and Reception -- Part A: The Book of Job 14. Plural Versions and the Challenge of Narrative Coherence in the Story of Job -- 15. Dramaturgy and the Book of Job -- 16. The Book of Job and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life -- Part B: History and Politics -- 17. Rhyme and Reason : The Historical Résumé in Israelite and Early Jewish Thought -- 18. God's Other : The Intractable Problem of the Gentile King in Judean and Early Jewish Literature -- 19. Why Nabonidus? Excavating Traditions from Qumran, the Hebrew Bible, and Neo-Babylonian Sources -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (403 pages) |
| ISBN: | 3161577248 |
