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This handy volume presents the rich variety of critical methodologies in contemporary literary study of the New Testament. The various chapters recognize the contributions of earlier epochs in the history of literary criticism and New Testament study and integrate these into current approaches. In addition, the book suggests implications of literary study for theology. It examines the relationship between redactional critical and literary approaches, and offers theoretical and exegetical analyses growing out of feminist literary study. Orality, allegory, deconstruction, ideology, sociological criticism, rhetorical criticism, narrative criticism, and other themes and methods are discussed in the authors' treatment of writings of the New Testament. These distinctive studies of particular texts introduce students and scholars to exciting new dimensions in biblical study. <p>This book deals with theory, exegesis, and their interdependence in this new literary context, integrating the contributions of earlier epochs in the history of literary criticism and New Testament study into current approaches. In addition to the editors, contributors include Williams Bear

Author

Edgar V. McKnight, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon

Publisher

Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781563381072

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Literary Fiction