Canons in conflict : negotiating texts in true and false prophecy / James E. Brenneman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brenneman, James E., 1954- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Canon.

Bible--Prophecies.

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible--Evidences, authority, etc.

Canon (Literature).

Prophecy.

Local Subjects:

Bible--Canon.

Bible--Prophecies.

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible--Evidences, authority, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Brenneman confronts the contemporary issue of conflicting canons, incorporating insights gained from both literary and biblical disciplines to reach an integrative resolution of authority and canon in a pluralistic context.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Engaging the Battle; PART I: CONTRADICTION, COMMUNITY, AND CANON; 1 Contradiction and Intertextuality; Prophet against Prophet; Contradiction: The Nature of Reality and Canonical Process; Intertextuality and Canonical Hermeneutics; Conclusions: Canon and Chaos; 2 Reader Response and Community of Interpretation; The Bible as Story; Reader-Response Criticism; The Community of Interpretation; Conclusions: The Readers' Canon; 3 The Fall and Rise of Canons; The Fall of the Canon: The Problem of Canon; The Rise of Canons and Their Canonical Communities

Conclusions: God and Canon PowerPART II: NEGOTIATING READINGS IN TRUE AND FALSE PROPHECY; 4 True and False Prophecy in Canonical Criticism; The Unfolding Story of Research in True and False Prophecy; The Ethos of Mythos and the Politics of Canon; Conclusions: Truth in Canon Politics; 5 Swords into Plowshares into Swords; Negotiating Readings: Rationale and Method; Tradition-Gestalt and the Reader; The Tradition-Gestalt of the Plowshare Passages; Canon as Function: Diachronic Readings of the Plowshare Passages; Canon as Context: Synchronic Reading of the Plowshare Passages

Conclusions: Canon Hermeneutics6 A Final Reading: Which Prophet? Whose Truth?; Postscript: Instead of a Conclusion; ""Here I Stand"": Under the Authority of the Community; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Bibliography: p197-217. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-217) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773849-4

1-280-45310-9

0-19-535519-9

0-585-16075-9

OCLC:

567929625