Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular: Two Postmodern Perspectives: No. 179 (The Library of New Testament Studies) - Hardcover

Jack, Dr Alison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850759545 ISBN 13: 9781850759546

Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999

Synopsis

The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten into texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible echoes and is reinvented, just as in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) many explicit and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered. In Texts Reading Texts, these readings of the Bible, and the ways in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been read, are considered from the two postmodern perspectives of marginalization and deconstruction. By reading the two seemingly unrelated texts side by side from these perspectives, traditional readings of them both are disturbed and challenged.

About this title

About the Author

Alison Jack is Professor of Bible and Literature and Principal of New College at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850759545
• ISBN 13: 9781850759546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 235