Between biblical criticism and poetic rewriting : interpretative struggles over Genesis 32:22-32 /

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Author / Creator:Tongue, Samuel.
Imprint:Boston : Brill, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (304 pages)
Language:English
Series:Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 129
Biblical interpretation series ; 129.
Subject:Bible. -- Genesis, XXXII, 22-32 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry -- History and criticism.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
Poetry.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304207
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ISBN:9004271155
9789004271159
9789004270404
900427040X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:In Between Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting, Samuel Tongue offers an account of the aesthetic and critical tensions inherent in the development of the Higher Criticism of the Bible. Different 'types' of Bible are created through the intellectual and literary pressures of Enlightenment and Romanticism and, as Tongue suggests, it is this legacy that continues to orientate the approaches deemed legitimate in biblical scholarship. Using a number of ancient and contemporary critical and poetic rewritings of Jacob's struggle with the 'angel' (Gen 32:22-32), Tongue makes use of postmodern theories of textual production to argue that it is the 'paragesis', a parasitical form of writing between disciplines, that best foregrounds the complex performativity of biblical interpretation.
Other form:900427040X
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Standard no.:10.1163/9789004271159.