Canons in Conflict : Negotiating Texts in True and False Prophecy.
In this new study, James Brenneman confronts the issue of conflicting canons with full force, incorporating insights gained from both literary and biblical disciplines on the question of canon. He begins with an illuminating tour through contemporary literary theory from Hans Robert Jauss toStanley...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| ISBN: | 9780195355192 0195355199 |
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Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations; Introduction: Engaging the Battle; PART I: CONTRADICTION, COMMUNITY, AND CANON; 1 Contradiction and Intertextuality; Prophet against Prophet; Contradiction: The Nature of Reality and Canonical Process; Intertextuality and Canonical Hermeneutics; Conclusions: Canon and Chaos; 2 Reader Response and Community of Interpretation; The Bible as Story; Reader-Response Criticism; The Community of Interpretation; Conclusions: The Readers' Canon; 3 The Fall and Rise of Canons; The Fall of the Canon: The Problem of Canon; The Rise of Canons and Their Canonical Communities.
- Conclusions: God and Canon PowerPART II: NEGOTIATING READINGS IN TRUE AND FALSE PROPHECY; 4 True and False Prophecy in Canonical Criticism; The Unfolding Story of Research in True and False Prophecy; The Ethos of Mythos and the Politics of Canon; Conclusions: Truth in Canon Politics; 5 Swords into Plowshares into Swords; Negotiating Readings: Rationale and Method; Tradition-Gestalt and the Reader; The Tradition-Gestalt of the Plowshare Passages; Canon as Function: Diachronic Readings of the Plowshare Passages; Canon as Context: Synchronic Reading of the Plowshare Passages.
- Conclusions: Canon Hermeneutics6 A Final Reading: Which Prophet? Whose Truth?; Postscript: Instead of a Conclusion; ""Here I Stand"": Under the Authority of the Community; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.