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Author Reed, Walter L

Title Dialogues of the Word : the Bible as literature according to Bakhtin / Walter L. Reed
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 223 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 Following Bakhtin's theory of language as dialogue, Reed shows how the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament dramatize a set of verbal encounters between God and his people. His analysis of dialogic patterns frames discussion of prophecy, wisdom and gospel as models of divine communication
Analysis Christianity Scriptures Criticism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index
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Subject Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975
SUBJECT Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975 fast
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mihavlovic̆ (1895-1975) ram
Subject Bible as literature.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Quotations.
Bible as literature
Bijbel.
Letterkunde.
Bible (Littérature)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1429407778
9781429407779
0195359887
9780195359886
9780195079975
0195079973
1280526580
9781280526589