Reading the Bible ethically : recovering the voice in the text / by Eric J. Douglass.

Reading the Bible ethically : recovering the voice in the text /

All interpretive systems deal with the author. Modern systems consider the text to be autonomous, so that it is disconnected from the author's interests. In this book, Eric Douglass reconsiders this connection. His central argument is that the author is a subject who reproduces her culture and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglass, Eric J., M. Div (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Series:Biblical interpretation series ; v. 133.
Subjects:
Bible > Hermeneutics.
Bible > Reading.
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The disappearing author
  • Writing as an intentional act
  • Subjectivity, texts, and creation
  • Reading as an intentional act
  • Problems in the reader's paradise
  • Connecting the author and the text
  • Excursus: the ideal communication situation
  • Intentional ways of reading
  • A way forward.

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