Reading Rahab: How criticism serves itself or eats itself
Studies of the Rahab story in Joshua illustrate how, as interpreters, we can read our interests and convictions into a text, allow it no room to protest that it did not have these interests or convictions, and give it no opportunity conversely to question the interests and convictions that we bring...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 76, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Josua 2
/ Rahab the Prostitute
/ Origenes 185-254
/ Coote, Robert B. 1944-
/ Prejudice
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Origen of Alexandria
B Athalya Brenner B Robert Coote B Criticism B Rahab B Joshua |
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| Summary: | Studies of the Rahab story in Joshua illustrate how, as interpreters, we can read our interests and convictions into a text, allow it no room to protest that it did not have these interests or convictions, and give it no opportunity conversely to question the interests and convictions that we bring to it as interpreters. This raises the question whether we actually want to discover things from texts or whether we simply want to provide illustrations of and support for what we think already. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622000709 |