The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical StudyThe 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? |
Contents
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MULTIVALENT READINGS IN GENESIS 23 | 10 |
MULTIVALENT READINGS IN PSALM 23 | 45 |
MULTIVALENT READINGS IN AMOS | 79 |
Chapter 5 CONCLUSION | 122 |
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