[Rezension von: Miller, Virginia, A king and a fool? : The Succession Narrative as a Satire]
This study was originally presented as Miller’s doctoral thesis at Murdoch University under the supervision of Suzanne Boorer, though Miller notes that it has been reworked to form the present study. Its origins are not completely hidden, but neither does it follow the standard pattern of the publis...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 823-825 |
| Review of: | A king and a fool? (Leiden : Brill, 2019) (Firth, David G.)
A king and a fool? (Leiden : Brill, 2019) (Firth, David G.) A king and a fool? ([Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Brill, 2019) (Firth, David G.) A king and a fool? ([Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Brill, 2019) (Firth, David G.) |
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| Summary: | This study was originally presented as Miller’s doctoral thesis at Murdoch University under the supervision of Suzanne Boorer, though Miller notes that it has been reworked to form the present study. Its origins are not completely hidden, but neither does it follow the standard pattern of the published thesis too closely. Nevertheless, there is a central thesis developed, which is that the Succession Narrative’s genre is best understood as satire. Miller aims to demonstrate this through the critical application of the model of irony developed by Douglas Muecke in his 1969 work, The Compass of Irony, with some consideration of his 2018 work Irony and the Ironic. Miller’s reason for doing so is that his model has not been applied to the narrative material of the Old Testament previously, with irony understood with less developed literary tools. Of most importance for this study is that Muecke developed a taxonomy for the different forms of irony with some indicators of how they might be recognized. A major contribution of the study is thus bringing a substantial work on irony to discussion of the Old Testament. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa082 |