Are Texts Determinate? Derrida, Barth, and The Role of the Biblical Scholar
This paper is about the relevance of Jacques Derrida's thought to biblical interpretation. It focuses specifically on the question of determinacy: whether there is something definite and determinate which is the object of textual interpretation, or whether texts are subject to an infinite numbe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1988
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1988, Volume: 81, Issue: 3, Pages: 341-357 |
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| Summary: | This paper is about the relevance of Jacques Derrida's thought to biblical interpretation. It focuses specifically on the question of determinacy: whether there is something definite and determinate which is the object of textual interpretation, or whether texts are subject to an infinite number of incompatible, but equally valid, readings. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000010130 |