By David Jasper
Starting with the insights of the "canonical feedback" of Brevard Childs and James Sanders, this e-book explores the canon of the Bible via readings in literature, paintings and cinema. It areas the Bible in the matters of latest feminist suggestion, postmodern nervousness and smooth apocalyptic notion. It returns the reader to a feeling of the centrality of the biblical canon, increasing the concept of "reading" to photograph and movie.
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See further, Robert Detweiler, "After the New Criticism: Contemporary Methods of Literary Interpretation", in Richard A. ), Orientation by Disorientation: Studies in Literary Criticism and Biblica Literary Criticism (Pittsburgh, 1980) pp. 9-10. Paul de Man, The Resistance to Theory (Manchester, 1986) p. 11. J. Hillis Miller, The Ethics of Reading (New York, 1987) p. 45. Childs, The New Testament as Canon, Excursus ni: "The Canonical Approach and the 'New Yale Theology"', pp. 541-6. , p. 543. George A.
They seem] unaware that the function of canonical shaping was often precisely to loosen the text from any one given historical setting, and to transcend the original addressee. 16 Much here might cause the literary critic gratefully to prick up her ears in the shift from the diachronic to the synchronic, the recognition of the hermeneutical problem of the identity of the "reader", or addressee, and the dissolution of the identity of the editor, not to speak of the author. Attention is shifted from the particularities of the apostolic age to the canonical literature as it is used within a community of faith and practice, shifted, in other words, from a predominantly historical paradigm to a predominantly literary one.
The author of Matthew's Gospel, one may suppose, was troubled enough by the wayward poetry of his predecessor in Mark's Gospel to straighten out many of his most mysterious moments. What one may call a "religious classic" - and Mark's Gospel is, finally, just that: a canonical work, though long-neglected - will always bear a paradigmatic claim to truth and reality. Yet this very Gospel is a trenchant example of a canonical work which almost escapes the bounds of its religious purpose. Why was it for so long neglected, and now has become almost an obsession with "literary" critics who have begun to turn their attention to scripture?