| A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture Contributor(s): Sherwood, Yvonne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521795613 ISBN-13: 9780521795616 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament - Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General |
| Dewey: 224.920 |
| LCCN: 00031176 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 356 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book charts the mutations of the book of Jonah as it latches onto Christian and Jewish motifs and anxieties, passes through highbrow and lowbrow culture, and finally becomes something of a scavenger among the ruins, as, in its most resourceful move to date, it begins to live off the demise of faith. This book is concerned with those versions of the biblical that escape proper disciplinary boundaries: it shifts the focus from Mainstream to Backwater interpretation. It is less a navigation of interpretative history and more an interrogation of larger political/cultural issues: anti-Judaism in Biblical Studies, the secularization of the Bible, and the projection of the Bible as credulous ingenu, naive Other to our savvy post-Enlightenment selves. |