The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible

The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
Contributors to This Volume......Page 10
David J.A. Clines and J. Cheryl Exum: The New Literary Criticism......Page 12
Literary Criticisms No Longer 'New'......Page 16
The New Literary Criticisms......Page 17
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 21
Alice Bach: Good to the Last Drop: Viewing the Sotah (Numbers 5.11-31) as the Glass Half Empty and Wondering How to View it Half Full......Page 27
Sotah with a Twist......Page 31
Fateful In/fidelities......Page 33
What Are Men Like?......Page 43
The Glass Half Empty......Page 46
The Glass Half Full......Page 51
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 53
Robert P. Carroll: Intertextuality and the Book of Jeremiah: Animadversions on Text and Theory......Page 56
David J.A. Clines: A World Established on Water (Psalm 24): Reader-Response, Deconstruction and Bespoke Interpretation......Page 80
1. A Reader-Response Criticism......Page 81
2. A Deconstructive Critique......Page 84
3. Bespoke Interpretation......Page 86
A Thrice-Told Tale: Who's Afraid of 'The Endangered Ancestress'?......Page 92
Features Obscure and Obscuring......Page 99
The Repetition Compulsion......Page 100
Patriarchy's Talking Cure......Page 103
Not a Woman's Story......Page 108
'She Is Indeed My Sister'......Page 109
Who's Afraid of 'The Endangered Ancestress'?......Page 111
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 112
Francisco O. García-Treto: A Reader-Response Approach to Prophetic Conflict: The Case of Amos 7.10-17......Page 115
Power Games......Page 120
Signifyin(g)......Page 122
Conclusion......Page 125
David Jobling: Ruth Finds a Home: Canon, Politics, Method......Page 126
Reading the Beginning of 1 Samuel......Page 127
Ruth in the LXX-Christian Canon......Page 131
Political Reading: A Postscript on Method......Page 135
Francis Landy: Tracing the Voice of the Other: Isaiah 28 and the Covenant with Death......Page 141
The Covenant with Death......Page 142
Poetry......Page 143
Isaiah, Poetry and Death......Page 146
Illustration: Verses 1-8......Page 150
Conclusion......Page 160
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 161
Stuart Lasine: Manasseh as Villain and Scapegoat......Page 164
Ahab, Jeroboam and Manasseh as Villains......Page 168
Manasseh as Scapegoat......Page 174
Peter D. Miscall: Moses and David: Myth and Monarchy......Page 185
Judges: The Centre Cannot Hold......Page 188
Doubles and Ambiguity......Page 190
Kingship without Myth......Page 193
David: Fairytale and Reality......Page 195
The Fantastic......Page 198
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 200
At Play in the Fields of the LORD: Paronomasia in 2 Samuel 15......Page 202
Between Mimesis and Artifice: Crossing Boundaries......Page 207
David's Flight: Ideological Directions......Page 214
2 Samuel 16: Considerations of Context......Page 217
Cursing and Counselling Kings......Page 220
Hugh S. Pyper: Surviving Writing: The Anxiety of Historiography in the Former Prophets......Page 228
Writing in the Former Prophets......Page 230
Writing and Death......Page 232
The Anxiety of Genealogy......Page 235
Son as Heir/Son as Rival......Page 239
Fathers and Sons/Readers and Texts......Page 240
Freud, Historiography and the Death of the Father......Page 243
Text and Reader: The Fight for Survival......Page 246
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 248
Ilona N. Rashkow: Daughters and Fathers in Genesis… Or, What Is Wrong with This Picture?......Page 251
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 263
Index of References......Page 267
D......Page 274
J......Page 275
P......Page 276
Z......Page 277
Back Matter......Page 278