The New Historicism: Guides to Biblical Scholarship (Guides to Biblical Scholarship Old Testament) - Softcover

Gina Hens-Piazza

 
9780800629892: The New Historicism: Guides to Biblical Scholarship (Guides to Biblical Scholarship Old Testament)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0800629892 ISBN 13: 9780800629892
Publisher: Fortress Press, 2002

Synopsis

New Historicism has been a highly controversial and influential movement in university literature departments for almost twenty years. Biblical studies now wrestles with this force and evaluates its potential for interpretation.With lucid and jargon-free description, this study sets forth New Historicism for the nonspecialist. Defining New Historicism as a mindset rather than a method, it traces the development, discusses recurring features, and offers illustrations of this new literary approach.Here biblical texts are plunged back into the swirling currents of historical context only to disclose their plural, contradictory, fragmentary, and heterogeneous character. This includes the histories associated, represented, and embedded in those texts. In the process, the carefully guarded distinctions between text and context, history and literature, past and present, fade. In exchange for the loss of these tidy categories, New Historicism promises sufficient compensationnamely, a potential venue where the sharply drawn border currently separating historical investigations from literary studies in biblical interpretation can be negotiated.

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About the Author

Gina Hens-Piazza is Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies at Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of Of Methods, Monarchs, and Meanings: A Sociorhetorical Approach (1996).

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Publisher
Fortress Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0800629892
ISBN 13 
9780800629892
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
104