Dialogues of the Word
The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 September 1993
- ISBN 9780195079975
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 241x160x22 mm
- Weight 555 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Following Bakhtin's theory of language as dialogue, Reed shows how the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament dramatize a set of verbal encounters between God and his people. His analysis of dialogic patterns in Genesis, Job and Revelation frames extensive discussion of law, prophecy, wisdom and gospel as models of divine-human communication. Reed thus situates the literary coherence of the Bible between the conflicting claims of historical diversity and theological unity.
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Using the theory of language developed by the Soviet critic Mikhail Bakhtin, this book argues that the historically various writings of the Bible have been given formal coherence within the canon by a notion of dialogue. The idea of an extended communication between God and his people is embodied in the continual conversation between one part of the Bible and another. Reed looks beyond the close readings of recent accounts of the bible as literature to the broader patterns of coherence in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament. He treats the Bible in its different canonical states, distinguishing the genres of law, prophecy and wisdom in the Hebrew Bible and describing how these earlier forms of biblical communication are appropriated and answered by the New Testament genre of gospel.
The dialogic character of the Bible is also discovered within individual books: patriarchal answers to primeval problems in Genesis, cross-talk between justice and providence in Job, orchestration of worship and judgement in Revelation. Throughout this wide-ranging study, Reed demonstrates the surprising relevance of Bakhtin's ideas of literature and language to an understanding of the biblical writings as they have been organized within the canon.
Reed weaves an intriguing interpretation of Genesis by bringing several of the internal narratives into conversation...Reed succeeds in creating a refreshing reading of the texts (and the text) of the Bible. His observations are measured and sober while being innovative and challenging. This book could be used with great success in both graduate and undergraduate settings. It also provides some interesting pedagogical strategies for teaching the dreaded biblical survey course. Reed's book represents an important new voice in the dialogue on the Bible as literature.
