Reading the Bible ethically : recovering the voice in the text /

Reading the Bible ethically : recovering the voice in the text /

All interpretive systems deal with the author. Modern systems consider the text to be autonomous, so that it is disconnected from the author's interests. In Reading the Bible Ethically , Eric Douglass reconsiders this connection. His central argument is that the author is a subject who reproduc...

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Main Author: Douglass, Eric J., M. Div.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2014.

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 133.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287389.

Subjects:

Bible > Hermeneutics.
Bible > Reading.
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.
Hermeneutics.
Reading.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: BS476 .D68 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 The Disappearing Author
  • 2 Writing as an Intentional Act
  • 3 Subjectivity, Texts, and Creation
  • 4 Reading as an Intentional Act
  • 5 Problems in the Reader's Paradise
  • 6 Connecting the Author and the Text
  • 7 Intentional Ways of Reading
  • 8 A Way Forward
  • Bibliography
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.