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Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study

Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study

Gillingham, Susan E.
Gillingham, S. E.

Hardcover

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 354

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 1841272973
ISBN13: 9781841272979
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 5 2002
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.86 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

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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