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David As Reader

2 Samuel 12:1-15 and the Poetics of Fatherhood

By: Hugh S. Pyper

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David As Reader

2 Samuel 12:1-15 and the Poetics of Fatherhood

By: Hugh S. Pyper

After an introduction to the concept of the narrative character as reader, this book offers a theoretical discussion based on the work of Bakhtin, Austin and Ricoeur. In-depth readings of the stories of Nathan's Parable and The Woman of Tegoa then show them to be oath-provocation stories. The tensions between father and son in the text are related to those between speaker and utterance and between reader and text. The book broadens the theoretical base for discussion of reader response to the Hebrew Bible and offers an original reading for some key texts in 2 Samuel.

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BRILL

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9004105816

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9789004105812

The Joy of Kierkegaard

Essays on Kierkegaard as a Biblical Reader

By: Hugh S. Pyper

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The Joy of Kierkegaard

Essays on Kierkegaard as a Biblical Reader

By: Hugh S. Pyper

Kierkegaard has often been regarded as a gloomy thinker yet, as an evangelist, his aim was to discover the joy of the truth of Christianity. Both Kierkegaard's belief and his doubt in his own work were the result of his attempt to comprehend the exceptional experiences of biblical characters and to examine what he found most puzzling or offensive. 'The Joy of Kierkegaard' brings together the writings of one of the most influential of Kierkegaard scholars. These essays argue that Kierkegaard's most original thought arises from his struggle with biblical passages and that joy underpins his profound exploration of spiritual alienation.

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188

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Routledge

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1317545516

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9781317545514

The Unchained Bible

Cultural Appropriations of Biblical Texts

By: Hugh S. Pyper

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The Unchained Bible

Cultural Appropriations of Biblical Texts

By: Hugh S. Pyper

This volume explores a number of instances of unexpected but influential readings of the Bible in popular culture, literature, film, music and politics. The argument in all of them is that the effects of the Bible continues to have an effect on contemporary culture in ways that may surprise and sometimes dismay both religious and secular groups. That the Bible was at one time chained in churches is true. The subversive misreading of this enchainment as a symbol of a book in captivity to the established church is hard to suppress, however. Yet, once released from these chains, the Bible proves to be a text that gets everywhere and which undergoes surprising and sometimes contradictory metamorphoses. The pious advocates of making the Bible accessible who sought to free it from the churches' chains are the very people who then decry some of the results when the Bible is free to roam.

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201

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A&C Black

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0567187063

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9780567187062

David As Reader

2 Samuel 12:1-15 and the Poetics of Fatherhood

By: Hugh S. Pyper

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David As Reader

2 Samuel 12:1-15 and the Poetics of Fatherhood

By: Hugh S. Pyper

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9789004105812

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