Biblical exegesis without authorial intention? : interdisciplinary approaches to authorship and meaning / edited by Clarissa Breu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breu, Clarissa, editor.

Series:

Biblical Interpretation Series 172.

Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; volume 172

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Postmodernism.

Bible--Authorship.

Bible.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2019.

Summary:

In Biblical Exegesis without Authorial Intention? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Authorship and Meaning , Clarissa Breu offers interdisciplinary contributions to the question of the author in biblical interpretation with a focus on “death of the author” theory. The wide range of approaches represented in the volume comprises mostly postmodern theory (e. g. Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Paul de Man, Julia Kristeva and Gilles Deleuze), but also the implied author and intentio operis. Furthermore, psychology, choreography, reader-response theories and anthropological studies are reflected. Inasmuch as the contributions demonstrate that biblical studies could utilize significantly more differentiated views on the author than are predominantly presumed within the discipline, it is an invitation to question the importance and place attributed to the author.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Authors Dead and Resurrected / Clarissa Breu

Exegesis without Authorial Intention? On the Role of the “Author Construct” in Text Interpretation / Sandra Heinen

Author – Text – Intention: A Case Study on the Letter of James / Oda Wischmeyer

“And God Was the Text”: An Essay on intentio operis and the Bible as the Word of God / Jochen Flebbe

Authorship and/as Intertext – Julia Kristeva and Paul de Man / Peter Clar

Between Intention and Reception: Textual Meaning-Making in Intersubjective Perspective / Michal Beth Dinkler

Born-Again Bibles: Biblical Studies after the “Death of the Author” / Hannah M. Strømmen

A Bible That Expresses Everything While Communicating Nothing: Deleuze and Guattari’s Cure for Interpretosis / Stephen D. Moore

#John: Author-Names in Revelation and Other New Testament Texts / Clarissa Breu

Dying and Rising with the Author: Specters of Paul and the Material Text / Gregory Peter Fewster

The Good That I Mean I Do Not Say: Meaning, Intention, Psychology and Romans 7 / A. K. M. Adam

Choreographing the Unchoreographable: Repetition and Disappearance in the Gospel of Mark / Henning Hupe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-37955-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004379558 DOI