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Between biblical criticism and poetic rewriting : interpretative struggles over Genesis 32:22-32 / by Samuel Tongue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tongue, Samuel, author.
- Series:
- Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 129.
- Biblical Interpretation Series, 0928-0731 ; Volume 129
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--History and criticism.
- Poetry.
- Bible. Genesis XXXII, 22-32--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Between Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting , Samuel Tongue offers an account of the aesthetic and critical tensions inherent in the development of the Higher Criticism of the Bible. Different ‘types’ of Bible are created through the intellectual and literary pressures of Enlightenment and Romanticism and, as Tongue suggests, it is this legacy that continues to orientate the approaches deemed legitimate in biblical scholarship. Using a number of ancient and contemporary critical and poetic rewritings of Jacob’s struggle with the ‘angel’ (Gen 32:22-32), Tongue makes use of postmodern theories of textual production to argue that it is the ‘paragesis’, a parasitical form of writing between disciplines, that best foregrounds the complex performativity of biblical interpretation.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Bound to Retell
- 1 Dancing Between the Disciplines: Following the Mobile Bible
- 2 Biblical Studies and Postmodern Poetics; or, ‘Gentlemanly’ Readers Meet ‘Uncouth Hydra Readers’
- 3 Poetic Paragesis and Disciplining the Imagination
- 4 Enacting Canonicity: Parageses in the Anatomy of Angels
- 5 Scripted Bodies: Paragesis and the Performative Poetics of Manhood
- Conclusion: The Dust Settles: Some Final Thoughts on Poetic Parageses of Jacob and the Angel
- Bibliography
- Index of Authors
- Index of Scripture
- Index of Ancient Sources.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-27115-5
- OCLC:
- 879947772
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004271159 DOI
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