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Texts reading texts, sacred and secular / Alison M. Jack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jack, Alison M., author.
- Series:
- Library of New Testament studies.
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 179.
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 179
- Library of New Testament studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Revelation--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Hogg, James, 1770-1835. Private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner.
- Hogg, James.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1999]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten into texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible echoes and is reinvented, just as in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) many explicit and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered. In Texts Reading Texts, these readings of the Bible, and the ways in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been read, are considered from the two postmodern perspectives of marginalization and deconstruction. By reading the two seemingly unrelated tex
- Contents:
- Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Part I MARGINALIZATION; Chapter 2 HOGG'S READINGS OF THE BIBLE; Chapter 3 REVELATION READING THE HEBREW BIBLE; Part II DECONSTRUCTION; Chapter 4 READING THE CONFESSIONS DECONSTRUCTIVELY; Chapter 5 READING REVELATION DECONSTRUCTIVELY; Chapter 6 CONCLUSION; APPENDIX 1: GENESIS RABBAH 19.9 AND 19.10; APPENDIX 2: 4Q385 SECOND EZEKIEL 2; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXES INDEX OF REFERENCES; INDEX OF AUTHORS; JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SUPPLEMENT SERIES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-227) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613192141
- 9781283192149
- 1283192144
- 9780567024985
- 0567024989
- OCLC:
- 741691521
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