Reading the Bible ethically : recovering the voice in the text / by Eric J. Douglass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass, Eric J., M. Div., author.

Series:

Biblical Interpretation Series 133.

Biblical Interpretations Series, 0928-0731 ; Volume 133

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible.

Bible--Reading.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

All interpretive systems deal with the author. Modern systems consider the text to be autonomous, so that it is disconnected from the author’s interests. In Reading the Bible Ethically , Eric Douglass reconsiders this connection. His central argument is that the author is a subject who reproduces her culture and her subjectivity in the text. As the author reproduces her subjectivity, the text functions as the author’s voice. This allows Douglass to apply ethical principles to interpretation, where that voice is treated as a subject for conversation, and not an object for manipulation. He uses this to texture the reading process, so that an initial reading takes account of the author’s communication, while a second reading critiques that communication.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 The Disappearing Author

2 Writing as an Intentional Act

3 Subjectivity, Texts, and Creation

4 Reading as an Intentional Act

5 Problems in the Reader’s Paradise

6 Connecting the Author and the Text

7 Intentional Ways of Reading

8 A Way Forward

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28287-4

OCLC:

894930815

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004282872 DOI