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Melville's Bibles / Ilana Pardes.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pardes, Ilana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible and literature.
- Religion and culture.
- Religion and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Religion and literature.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Bible--Commentaries.
- Bible.
- Bible--Hermeneutics.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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-literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Playing with Leviathan: Job and the Aesthetic Turn in Biblical Exegesis
- 2. "Jonah Historically Regarded": Improvisations on Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
- 3. "Call Me Ishmael": The Bible and the Orient
- 4. Ahab, Idolatry, and the Question of Possession: Biblical Politics
- 5. Rachel's Inconsolable Cry: The Rise of Women's Bibles
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611385712
- 9781281385710
- 1281385719
- 9780520941526
- 0520941527
- 9781435653771
- 1435653777
- OCLC:
- 476162454
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