| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Contents |
1 In the Beginning: Dialogue in Genesis and the Gospels; 2 The Law of the Priest, the Word of the Prophet, the Counsel of the Wise: A Poetics of the Hebrew Bible; 3 Spoken to Us by His Son: A Dialogics of the New Testament; 4 Who Is This That Darkens Counsel? Cross-Talk in the Book of Job; 5 Coming Down out of Heaven from God: The Orchestration of an Ending in the Book of Revelation; Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
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 hasbeen 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 theBible in it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-193) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.
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| SUBJECT |
Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975 fast |
| Subject |
Bible as literature.
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Bible as literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
92036420 |
| ISBN |
9780195359886 |
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0195359887 |
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1280526580 |
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9781280526589 |
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1429407778 |
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9781429407779 |
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