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

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

Part of the The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies series

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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?

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