Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study by Gillingham, Susan

Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781841272979)

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Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study by Gillingham, Susan

Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study

$230.00
Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study by Gillingham, Susan

Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study

$230.00
Format: Hardcover
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The 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?

Author: Susan Gillingham
ISBN-10: 1841272973
ISBN-13: 9781841272979
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2002
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.86w x 0.70d
By Susan Gillingham
By Susan Gillingham
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Susan Gillingham is Fellow and Tutor in Theology, Worcester College, Oxford and University Lecturer in Old Testament at Oxford University.

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