Melville's BiblesUniversity of California Press, 5. feb. 2008 - 206 sider Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings—literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation. |
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... Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I took part in a research group on “Ethnography and Litera- ture.” It was an exceptionally stimulating and warm intellectual set- ting where discussions were never confined by normative temporal ...
... Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I took part in a research group on “Ethnography and Litera- ture.” It was an exceptionally stimulating and warm intellectual set- ting where discussions were never confined by normative temporal ...
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... Hebrew University In- tramural Research Funds and to the Israel Science Foundation . I am also indebted to the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Senior Lectureship in Humanities . I presented different portions of the book at Hebrew ...
... Hebrew University In- tramural Research Funds and to the Israel Science Foundation . I am also indebted to the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Senior Lectureship in Humanities . I presented different portions of the book at Hebrew ...
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