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The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study (JSOT Supplement)

By Susan Gillingham

Book information

Publisher
Sheffield Academic Press
Year
2002
ISBN
1841272973, 9781841272979
Open Library ID
OL8919378M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8729348 bytes)
Series
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 354
Pages
159\161
Topic
Education
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The purpose of this book is to illustrate that reading is a subjective process which results in multivalent interpretations. This is the case whether one looks at a text in its historical contexts (the diachronic approach) or its literary contexts (the synchronic approach). Three representative biblical texts are chosen: from the Law (Genesis 2-3), the Writings (Isaiah 23) and the Prophets (Amos 5), and each is read first by way of historical analysis and then by literary analysis. Each text provides a number of variant interpretations and raises the question, is any one interpretation superior? What criteria do we use to measure this? Or is there value in the complementary nature of many approaches and many results?

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