Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular: Two Postmodern Perspectives (The Library of New Testament Studies) - Hardcover

Jack, Alison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850759545 ISBN 13: 9781850759546

Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999

Synopsis

The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten into texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible echoes and is reinvented, just as in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) many explicit and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered. In Texts Reading Texts, these readings of the Bible, and the ways in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been read, are considered from the two postmodern perspectives of marginalization and deconstruction. By reading the two seemingly unrelated texts side by side from these perspectives, traditional readings of them both are disturbed and challenged.

About this title

About the Authors

Alison Jack is Professor of Bible and Literature and Principal of New College at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850759545
• ISBN 13: 9781850759546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 235