Changing Perceptions of Genre in Biblical Studies
Genre analysis has long been a basic tool of biblical scholarship. In recent years, however, there has been growing resistance to categorization. The basic argument is that categorization allegedly restricts the range of literature to which a text is compared. Some of this resistance is exaggerated....
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Rivista biblica
Year: 2021, Volume: 69, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 335-351 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Literary genre
/ End of the world
/ Exegesis
/ Biblical studies
/ Corpus (Linguistics)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Genre analysis has long been a basic tool of biblical scholarship. In recent years, however, there has been growing resistance to categorization. The basic argument is that categorization allegedly restricts the range of literature to which a text is compared. Some of this resistance is exaggerated. The critique is valid in sofar as it reminds us that in most cases genres are construed by readers for their purposes, and while they may be valid and helpful, they are not necessarily the only way in which a given corpus of texts can be viewed. Nonetheless, genres remain important guides for interpretation, by highlighting not only the typical features of different kinds of texts but also the differences that distinguish them from related genres. L’analisi del genere è stata a lungo uno strumento di base dello studio biblico. Negli ultimi anni, tuttavia, c’è stata una crescente resistenza alla categorizzazione. L’argomento di base è che la categorizzazione restringe lo spazio letterario in cui viene collocato un testo. Alcune di queste resistenze sono tuttavia esagerate. La critica è valida in quanto ci ricorda che nella maggior parte dei casi i generi sono interpretati dai lettori per i loro scopi, e mentre possono essere validi e utili, non sono necessariamente l’unico modo in cui un dato corpus di testi può essere visualizzato. Tuttavia, i generi rimangono importanti guide per l’interpretazione, perché evidenziano non solo le caratteristiche tipiche di diversi tipi di testi, ma anche le differenze che li distinguono dai generi correlati. |
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| ISSN: | 0035-5798 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Rivista biblica
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