The Control of Biblical Meaning - Couverture souple

Aichele, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1563383330 ISBN 13 : 9781563383335

Editeur : Trinity Press International, 2001

Synopsis

This provocative book pursues a series of questions associated with canon(s) of the Bible. How does the canon influence the meaning of the texts of which it is composed? Could texts be liberated" from the canon, and what would this liberation do to them or to the canon? What does the biblical canon signify about its constituent texts? What does canonical status imply about texts that are included in the Bible, as well as texts that are excluded from it? How does a canon―a cultural and ideological product―influence or create ideology and culture?

In The Control of Biblical Meaning, George Aichele draws deeply on the insights of postructuralist literary theory as he pursues these questions. He also engages in close readings of specific biblical and nonbiblical texts to demonstrate ways that canon controls the meanings of its texts. With dazzling skill, Aichele interrogates the form and function of canon as a mechanism that both reveals and conceals texts from its readers.

George Aichele teaches at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. He is the author of Sign, Text, Scripture: Semiotics and the Bible and Jesus Framed and is a contributor to The Postmodern Bible.

For: Advanced undergraduates; graduate students; biblical scholars; course text"

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

George Aichele is a member of the Bible and Culture Collective, the collaborative author of The Postmodern Bible. He is also the author of Sign Text Scripture and The Control of Biblical Meaning and co-editor with Walsh of Screening Scripture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Trinity Press International
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1563383330
• ISBN 13: 9781563383335
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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