Melville's Bibles

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University of California Press, 5 בפבר׳ 2008 - 206 עמודים
Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings—literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.
 

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Introduction
1
Job and the Aesthetic Turn in Biblical Exegesis
18
Improvisations on Kittos Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
46
The Bible and the Orient
73
Biblical Politics
98
The Rise of Womens Bibles
123
Epilogue
148
Notes
157
Index
185
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מידע על המחבר (2008)

Ilana Pardes is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is the author of Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach and The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible (UC Press).

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