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Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: Biblical Literature

Autor Carolyn J. Sharp
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 dec 2008
Was God being ironic in commanding Eve not to eat fruit from the tree of wisdom? Carolyn J. Sharp suggests that many stories in the Hebrew Scriptures may be ironically intended. Deftly interweaving literary theory and exegesis, Sharp illumines the power of the unspoken in a wide variety of texts from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings. She argues that reading with irony in mind creates a charged and open rhetorical space in the texts that allows character, narration, and authorial voice to develop in unexpected ways. Main themes explored here include the ironizing of foreign rulers, the prostitute as icon of the ironic gaze, indeterminacy and dramatic irony in prophetic performance, and irony in ancient Israel's wisdom traditions. Sharp devotes special attention to how irony destabilizes dominant ways in which the Bible is read today, especially when it touches on questions of conflict, gender, and the Other.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253352446
ISBN-10: 0253352444
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Seria Biblical Literature


Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction1. Interpreting Irony: Rhetorical, Hermeneutical, and Theological Possibilities: Irony and Contemporary Methodological Debates / Method: Multiaxial Cartography / Leaving the Garden: The Wisdom of Irony; 2. Foreign Rulers and the Fear of God: Pharaoh and Abimelech as Innocents Ensnared / "Am I in the Place of God?": Joseph the Pretender / Belshazzar, Darius, and Hermeneutical Risk-taking / The Ending of Esther and Narratological Excess; 3. The Prostitute as Icon of the Ironic Gaze: Tamar the Righteous / Rahab the Clever / Jael the Bold / Gomer the Beloved / Ruth the Loyal; 4. The Irony of Prophetic Performance: Oracular Indeterminacy and Dramatic Irony in the Story of Balaam / Hermeneutics of De(con)struction: Amos as Samson Redivivus / Contested Hermeneutics and the Undecidability of Micah 2:12-13 / Irony as Emetic: Parody in the Book of Jonah; 5. "How Long Will You Love Being Simple?" Irony in Wisdom Traditions: Ironic Representation, Authorial Voice, and Meaning in Qohelet / Rereading Desire as Doublespeak in Psalm 73; 6. Conclusion: Irony and Scriptural Signifying / Leaving the Garden Again: New BeginningsBibliography; Index of Biblical Passages; Author Index; Subject Index

Recenzii

"Careful readers must be especially attentive to the possibilities the biblical texts mean otherwise than what they say." Mark Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology"[Sharp] negotiates between a modernist and post-modernist understanding of the biblical text, taking authorial intent seriously while attending to textual self-subversion." Steven Weitzman, Indiana University

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A sophisticated, provocative reading of the Hebrew Scriptures