Melville's Bibles
Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center s...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley
University of Californiarnia Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Reviews: | Melville’s Bibles. By Ilana Pardes (2009) (Johnson, Bradley A.)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings-literar |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0520254554 |