Anti-Covenant (eBook, PDF)

Counter-Reading Women's Lives in the Hebrew Bible
Redaktion: Bal, Mieke

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays from feminist Biblical scholars including Carol Delaney, Rachel C. Rasmussen, Cynthia Baker and Mieke Bal, starts from the premise that reading is always in the plural. It is never just the text alone that is read, but also the scholarly meta-text. The essays encourage the reader to challenge his or her presuppositions that she has brought to an analysis of the Hebrew Bible, before returning the scrutiny to the text and using a narratological approach to investigate. This insight raises such questions as: who speaks? who sees? and who acts? This now familiar means of analysing texts has lost none of its power to demand answers otherwise not forthcoming. The essays provide a rigorous re- assessment of familiar stories of the Hebrew Bible and suggest we encourage the practice of a hermeneutics of suspicion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1989
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567446251
• Artikelnr.: 41747083

Autorenporträt

Mieke Bal is the author of Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, and many other books. She is Professor of the Theory of Literature at the University of Amsterdam, and has also been affiliated with Columbia University, the University of Rochester, and Cornell University.