The New Testament as Literature: Very Short Introduction. By Kyle Keefer
This brief book addresses a vast subject, and wisely does not try to do everything. As the excellent bibliography demonstrates, this is already a field that has been widely covered, and, addressing a readership that is non-specialist, Keefer successfully, and often brilliantly, embarks specifically...
| Published in: | Literature and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Literature and theology
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| Review of: | New Testament as Literature (Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008) (Jasper, David)
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| Summary: | This brief book addresses a vast subject, and wisely does not try to do everything. As the excellent bibliography demonstrates, this is already a field that has been widely covered, and, addressing a readership that is non-specialist, Keefer successfully, and often brilliantly, embarks specifically on a series of literary readings of the books of the New Testament, which are accessible, provocative and theologically highly suggestive., The first chapter deals with a central question. It demonstrates through readings of a very familiar text, the Parable of the Good Samaritan in St Luke’s Gospel, how ‘received tradition’ and formal biblical scholarship can often obscure ‘literary’ readings that may have the power to reveal hidden dimensions of the text. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp049 |