The Virtuous Reader: Old Testament Narrative and Interpretive Virtue. By Richard S. Briggs
This is a rewarding book that combines philosophical insight with hermeneutical skill and fine close readings of Old Testament narratives. It is deftly written with an appreciation of literary intertexts from Boswell to a nice appreciation of Lord Byron’s ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’ and Mark Tw...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 701-703 |
| Review of: | The virtuous reader (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, 2010) (Jasper, David)
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| Summary: | This is a rewarding book that combines philosophical insight with hermeneutical skill and fine close readings of Old Testament narratives. It is deftly written with an appreciation of literary intertexts from Boswell to a nice appreciation of Lord Byron’s ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’ and Mark Twain’s ‘midrash-like whimsy’ in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Although an essentially theologically conservative work, this book is rooted in a careful employment of the ‘literary-critical category’ of the implied reader, and Briggs is perfectly well at home in the critical theory of Iser, Booth, Ricoeur, Eco, and others., The opening chapter begins in pursuit of the virtues of the implied reader of the Old Testament. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq078 |