Image, the Depths and the Surface : Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study
Overview
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 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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- ISBN-13: 9781841272979
- ISBN-10: 1841272973
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Publish Date: August 2002
- Dimensions: 9.06 x 6.86 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 160
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