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Summoning : ideas of the covenant and interpretive theory / edited by Ellen Spolsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
- SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and literature.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- Covenant theology in literature.
- Covenants--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Covenants.
- Judaism--Essence, genius, nature.
- Judaism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the variety of ways that the Jewish understanding of the Covenant relates to the notion of a contract or a shared grammar as developed in recent structural and post-structural theory. The book enters the debate on the relationship beween a variety of open-ended forms of text interpretation and traditional Jewish interpretive practice, expanding and deepening that debate. Until now, the discussion has focused primarily on Midrashic interpretation; these essays balance the assumption of the openness of interpretation with an exploration of the concurrent restrictions on interpretation imposed by a covenant.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Content""; ""Power and Constraint: Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton""; ""Theoretical Perspectives""; ""Biblical Covenants as Performative Language""; ""Facing the Other: Levinas, Perelman, and Rosenzweig""; ""The Difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant""; ""The Perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning""; ""The Sign of the Covenant""; ""Covenants and Texts""; ""Redesigning Redemption: Covenant in the Testament of Moses""
- ""Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe""""Binding and Unbinding: The Summons to Interpretation in The Merchant of Venice""; ""American Literature's Declaration of In/dependence: Stanley Cavell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Covenant of Consent""; ""Intertextuality and Reader Responsibility: Living On in Malamud's ""The Mourners""""; """" The New Covenant"" and theDilemma of Dissensus:Bercovitch, Roth, and Doctorow""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""Back Matter""; ""Back Cover""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438420844
- 1438420846
- OCLC:
- 794701357
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