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Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular: Two Postmodern Perspectives
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Main Details
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Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular: Two Postmodern Perspectives
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Dr Alison Jack
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| Series | The Library of New Testament Studies |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781850759546
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| Classifications | Dewey:228.06 |
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| Audience | | Undergraduate | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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| Imprint |
Sheffield Academic Press
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| Publication Date |
1 May 1999 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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.
Author Biography
Alison Jack is Lecturer and Assistant Principal of New College School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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