THE BEST STORIES IN THE BEST ORDER? CANONS, APOCRYPHAS AND (POST)MODERN READING
Bible reading occurs at intersection of perpetually shifting canons—of textual meaning, interpretative strategies, and preferred textual menu for particular contemporary consumption. Such continual up-to-datedness is the Bible's, as it is the classic's, only survival kit. Contemporary read...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2000
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Literature and theology
Year: 2000, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-80 |
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| Summary: | Bible reading occurs at intersection of perpetually shifting canons—of textual meaning, interpretative strategies, and preferred textual menu for particular contemporary consumption. Such continual up-to-datedness is the Bible's, as it is the classic's, only survival kit. Contemporary reading is the only reading—ever Post-modernism's biblical reading menu is notable for its post-modernist yields of meaning, but textual post-modernism—aporias textual unboundedness, canonical on-edgedness, apocryphalism, etcetera—is typical of biblical texts' ur-post-modernism (the Bible living up, of course, to applied post-modernist reading expectations). All such reading is an aestheticisation a fictionalising process—abusive naturally, constructively abusive, perhaps, but always catachretical, demythologising, a negative theology. But, of course, this is utterly inevitable for now. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/14.1.69 |