Dialogues of the Word: The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin

Dialogues of the Word: The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin

by Walter L. Reed
ISBN-10:
0195079973
ISBN-13:
9780195079975
Pub. Date:
07/15/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195079973
ISBN-13:
9780195079975
Pub. Date:
07/15/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Dialogues of the Word: The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin

Dialogues of the Word: The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin

by Walter L. Reed
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Overview

Drawing on the theory of language developed by the Soviet critic Mikhail Bakhtin, this book argues that the historically diverse writings of the Bible have been organized according to a concept of dialogue. The overriding concern with an ongoing communication between God and his people has been formally embodied, Reed shows, in the continuous conversation between one part of the Bible and another. Reed looks beyond the close readings of recent accounts of the Bible as literature to larger paradigms of communication in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament. He considers the Bible in its different canonical states, distinguishing the genres of law, prophecy, and wisdom in the Hebrew Bible and describing how these earlier forms of divine and human communication are appropriated and answered by the New Testament genre of gospel. The dialogic character of the Bible is also discovered within individual books: patriarchal answers to primeval failures in Genesis, cross-talk between justice and providence in Job, and orchestration of judgment and worship in Revelation. Throughout this wide-ranging study, Reed demonstrates the surprising relevance of Bakhtin's ideas of literature and language to the biblical writings as they assume formal coherence within the canon.

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ISBN-13: 9780195079975
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/15/1993
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile: 1670L (what's this?)

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