The Evasive Text - Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader

Informationen zum Autor Mark Cameron Love is Assistant Professor of Euro-American Studies! Gachon Medical School! Incheon! Korea. Klappentext This work employs an eclectic mix of structuralist and post-structuralist theories in a doomed attempt to discover the symbolic logic at work in Zechariah 1-8's surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariah's intra- and intertextual logic! or lack thereof! are presented. It is finally concluded that Zechariah lacks a concrete symbolic logic! defies grammatical conventions and is 'unreadable' as it stands-and always was this way. One suggestion is that it was the intent of the author! conceived of in a postmodern way! to produce such a work. It is finally concluded that the 'post-prophetic' age of Hebrew literature has much in common with the postmodern. Zusammenfassung This work employs an eclectic mix of structuralist and post-structuralist theories in a doomed attempt to discover the symbolic logic at work in Zechariah 1-8's surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariah's intra- and intertextual logic! or lack thereof! are presented. It is finally concluded that Zechariah lacks a concrete symbolic logic! defies grammatical conventions and is 'unreadable' as it stands-and always was this way. One suggestion is that it was the intent of the author! conceived of in a postmodern way! to produce such a work. It is finally concluded that the 'post-prophetic' age of Hebrew literature has much in common with the postmodern.

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• Authors: Mark Love, Mark Cameron Love
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781841270203
• ISBN: 978-1-84127-020-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: JSOT Supplement (Hardcover); JSOT Supplement (Hardcover); The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies; Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, RELIGION / Reference, Christianity, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Commentaries