Dialogues of the Word : the Bible as literature according to Bakhtin / Walter L. Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Walter L. (Walter Logan), 1943- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Bible as literature.

Local Subjects:

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following Bakhtin's theory of language as dialogue, Reed shows how the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament dramatize a set of verbal encounters between God and his people. His analysis of dialogic patterns frames discussion of prophecy, wisdom and gospel as models of divine communication.

Contents:

Contents; 1 In the Beginning: Dialogue in Genesis and the Gospels; 2 The Law of the Priest, the Word of the Prophet, the Counsel of the Wise: A Poetics of the Hebrew Bible; 3 Spoken to Us by His Son: A Dialogics of the New Testament; 4 Who Is This That Darkens Counsel? Cross-Talk in the Book of Job; 5 Coming Down out of Heaven from God: The Orchestration of an Ending in the Book of Revelation; Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772374-8

1-280-52658-0

0-19-535988-7

1-4294-0777-8

OCLC:

191953036