Bakhtin and genre theory in biblical studies / edited by Roland Boer.

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TextSeries: Society of Biblical Literature. Semeia studies ; ; no. 63. | Semeia studies ; no. 63.Publication details: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781435627086
1435627083
1589832760
9781589832763

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bakhtin and genre theory in biblical studies.DDC classification:

220.6/6092 22

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BS600.3 .B35 2007eb

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Contents:

Introduction: Bakhtin, genre and biblical studies / Roland Boer -- Essays -- Dialogue in and among genres / Martin J. Buss -- Spying out the land : a report from genology / Carol A. Newsom -- Power, eros, and biblical genres / Christine Mitchell -- Experiential learning : the construction of Jonathan in the narrative of Saul and David / Barbara Green -- Location, location, location : Tamar in the Joseph cycle / Judy Fentress-Williams -- Dialogic form criticism : an intertextual reading of Lamentations and Psalms of lament / Carleen Mandolfo -- Polyglossia and parody : language in Daniel 1-6 / David M. Valeta -- The apocalyptic chronotope / Michael E. Vines -- Matthew's genealogy as eschatological satire : Bakhtin meets form criticism / Christopher C. Fuller -- Bakhtin's dialogism and the corrective rhetoric of the Johannine misunderstanding dialogue : exposing seven crises in the Johannine situation / Paul N. Anderson -- Liberation story or apocalypse? reading biblical allusion and Bakhtin theory in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Bula Maddison -- Responses -- Beyond formalism : genre and the analysis of biblical texts / Keith Bodner -- Using Bakhtin's Lexicon dialogicae to interpret canon, apocalyptic, New Testament, and Toni Morrison / Vernon K. Robbins.

Summary: This volume offers a meeting between genre theory in biblical studies and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who continues to be immensely influential in literary criticism. Here Bakhtin comes face to face with a central area of biblical studies: the question of genre. The essays range from general discussions of genre through the reading of specific biblical texts to an engagement with Toni Morrison and the Bible. --From publisher's description.

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"This collection grew initially out of a session at the Society of Biblical Literature's Annual Meeting in San Antonio (2004) entitled "Bakhtin and genre""--Introduction

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and indexes.

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This volume offers a meeting between genre theory in biblical studies and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who continues to be immensely influential in literary criticism. Here Bakhtin comes face to face with a central area of biblical studies: the question of genre. The essays range from general discussions of genre through the reading of specific biblical texts to an engagement with Toni Morrison and the Bible. --From publisher's description.

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