The New Literary Criticism and the New TestamentElizabeth Struthers Malbon, Edgar V. McKnight This publication presents the rich variety of critical methodologies in contemporary literary study of the New Testament. The tradition of study represented in the essays lies at the conjunction of developments in biblical studies and literary criticism: (1) the exhaustion of New Testament historical criticism in general and redaction criticism in particular; (2) the waning of Formalist-New Critical approaches in literary study; and (3) the emphasis upon the text in terms of language and discourse as the 'free play of signifiers'. The essays deal with theory, exegesis, and their interdependence in this new literary context. However, contributions of earlier epochs in the history of literary criticism and New Testament study are integrated into current approaches. For example, the issue of reference originating in the mimetic theories of classical antiquity is raised implicitly and explicitly. Implications of literary study for theology are suggested. The relationship between redaction-critical and literary approaches is examined. Theoretical and exegetical essays growing out of feminist literary study are offered. Orality, allegory, deconstruction, ideology, sociological criticism, rhetorical criticism, narrative criticism, as well as other themes and methods are discussed in the essays' treatment of writings of the New Testament. A rich variety of critical methodologies in contemporary literary study of the New Testament |
Contents
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The Major Importance of the Minor Characters in Mark | 58 |
Jesus and the Rhetoric of Perception in LukeActs | 87 |
A Feminist Reception History | 108 |
Reading Galatians 42131 with Postmodern Feminist Eyes | 228 |
A Postmodern Reading of the Biblical Bottomless Pit | 251 |
How Jesus Risen Body Became a Cadaver | 269 |
The Samaritan Woman Meets Derrida at the Well | 283 |
An Option in Contemporary New Testament Hermeneutics | 326 |
Matthews Dark Light and the Human Condition | 348 |
What Is It About? Reference in New Testament Literary Criticism | 367 |
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Implications for Interpretation | 145 |
Mary Elizabeth and the Magnificat as a Test Case | 164 |
Rhetoric as Theology and History in Pauls Romans | 210 |
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