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Melville's Bibles

By Ilana Pardes

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0520254554, 9780520254558, 0520254546, 9780520254541, 9781435653771
LCC
PS2388.B5 P37 2007
Open Library ID
OL10434998M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
980 kB (1003309 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
206\207
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings--literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.

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