Words and the Word: language, poetics, and biblical interpretation
First published in 1986, Stephen Prickett's Words and the 'Word' has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. In this highly-acclaimed book Prickett pursues the question of the relationship between religion...
| Subtitles: | Words & <I>The Word</I> |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1986.
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| In: | Year: 1986 |
| Reviews: | BOOK REVIEWS (1987) (Wright, T. R.)
REVIEWS (1988) (Warner, Martin) Words and "The Word": Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation. Stephen Prickett (1988) (Poland, Lynn) |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Language and languages
Religious aspects
B Bible ; Hermeneutics B Bible B Criticism B Bible Hermeneutics B Language and languages ; Religious aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780521322485 |
| Summary: | First published in 1986, Stephen Prickett's Words and the 'Word' has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. In this highly-acclaimed book Prickett pursues the question of the relationship between religion and poetics, and in particular the nature of religious language, investigating the hermeneutic, epistemological and linguistic reverberations of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century theories of biblical interpretation. Ways of reading the Bible -- 'The peculiar language of heaven ... ' -- Poetry and prophecy -- The paradoxes of disconfirmation -- Metaphor and reality |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Feb 2016) |
| ISBN: | 0511597479 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511597473 |