Reading the Bible as Literature: An Introduction. By Jeanie C. Crain
Different lines of approach to biblical interpretation are still a matter of great discussion. Is the Bible to be treated as a sacred and authoritative theological Word? Or as a significant example of Weltliteratur? A potent cultural or even nationalist object? Or, after the Higher Criticism, simply...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-115 |
| Review of: | Reading the Bible as literature (Cambridge [u.a.] : Polity Pr., 2010) (Tongue, Samuel)
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Book review
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| Summary: | Different lines of approach to biblical interpretation are still a matter of great discussion. Is the Bible to be treated as a sacred and authoritative theological Word? Or as a significant example of Weltliteratur? A potent cultural or even nationalist object? Or, after the Higher Criticism, simply a historically fragmented patchwork of texts? These questions, and many others, continue to animate and circle the sometime meetings and partings between biblical studies, theology, literary theory and cultural criticism. Jeanie C. Crain’s Reading the Bible as Literature: An Introduction is a useful starting point to begin to explore some of these questions, but it is very much only a starting point., Crain’s focus is on introducing the study of the Bible as literature in itself. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frq062 |