The land without promise: the roots and afterlife of one biblical allusion
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Bible and literature -- Aims and methods -- Chapter 1 The Role of Artistic Interpretation in Biblical Hermeneutics -- The role of art in the hermeneutical process -- The text and the reader: partners in a dialogue -- T...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2021
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Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible (29)
Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Kočí, Kateřina, The land without promise : the roots and afterlife of one biblical allusion] (2024) (Waters, Jaime L.)
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| Series/Journal: | Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible
29 Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies 709 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brueggemann, Walter 1933-
/ Steinbeck, John 1902-1968
/ Promised Land (Motif)
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| Further subjects: | B
Reader-response criticism
B Religion and geography B Electronic books B Bible and literature |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Bible and literature -- Aims and methods -- Chapter 1 The Role of Artistic Interpretation in Biblical Hermeneutics -- The role of art in the hermeneutical process -- The text and the reader: partners in a dialogue -- The struggle between synchrony and diachrony -- Chapter 2 The Context and Reception of the Promised Land Motif in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament -- A thematic analysis of the promised land in the Hebrew Bible -- An historical-critical analysis of Genesis 15.7 and Exodus 3.8 -- An historical-critical analysis of Genesis 15.1-21 -- An historical-critical analysis of Exodus 3.1-12 -- Reception of the promised land in the Hebrew Bible -- The Torah -- Deuteronomistic History -- The literary prophets to the end of the exile -- The postexilic era -- Reception of the promised land in the New Testament -- The Gospels and Acts -- The Pauline Epistles -- The non-Pauline Epistles -- Chapter 3 The Extra-Biblical and Post-Biblical History of the Promised Land Motif -- The history of biblical scholarship -- Antiquity -- Reformation -- Late tradition and application -- The history of literary scholarship -- Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation -- Late reception and application -- The history of religious communities in the American Episcopal Church -- The community of New England Puritans -- The American Episcopal community of later centuries -- Chapter 4 Interpretations of the Promised Land Motif by Walter Brueggemann and John Steinbeck -- Brueggemann's interpretation of the promised land motif -- The land as symbol and fascinans -- Brueggemann's land symbolism: between landlessness and landedness -- Curing one's conscience but what comes next? Brueggemann and liberation theology -- John Steinbeck's interpretation of the promised land motif. |
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| ISBN: | 0567696308 |