Babel and Derrida: Postmodernism, Language and Biblical Interpretation
This article assesses the challenge postmodernism constitutes for biblical interpretation via an analysis of Derrida’s reading of the Tower of Babel narrative. Derrida’s setting of the text in play is found to be an unhelpful model for biblical interpretation, but his foregrounding of language in th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1998
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Tyndale bulletin
Year: 1998, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 305-328 |
| Further subjects: | B
Postmodernism
B derrida B babel B Genesis B Hermeneutics B Old Testament B philosophy of language B pentateuch |
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