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Reading the Bible Ethically: Recovering the Voice in the Text

By Eric J. Douglass

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004282866, 9789004282865
ISSN
0928-0731
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2796256 bytes)
Series
Biblical Interpretation 133
Pages
viii+301\311
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-09-24 21:16:30
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Description

All interpretive systems deal with the author. Modern systems consider the text to be autonomous, so that it is disconnected from the author’s interests. In Reading the Bible Ethically, Eric Douglass reconsiders this connection. His central argument is that the author is a subject who reproduces her culture and her subjectivity in the text. As the author reproduces her subjectivity, the text functions as the author’s voice. This allows Douglass to apply ethical principles to interpretation, where that voice is treated as a subject for conversation, and not an object for manipulation. He uses this to texture the reading process, so that an initial reading takes account of the author’s communication, while a second reading critiques that communication.

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