Words and The Word
Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation
Seiten
1988
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-36838-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-36838-4 (ISBN)
First published in 1986, Words and the Word has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. Stephen Prickett, the author, pursues the question of the relationship between religion and poetics, and in particular the nature of religious language.
First published in 1986, Stephen Prickett's Words and the 'Word' has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. In this highly-acclaimed book Prickett pursues the question of the relationship between religion and poetics, and in particular the nature of religious language, investigating the hermeneutic, epistemological and linguistic reverberations of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century theories of biblical interpretation.
First published in 1986, Stephen Prickett's Words and the 'Word' has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. In this highly-acclaimed book Prickett pursues the question of the relationship between religion and poetics, and in particular the nature of religious language, investigating the hermeneutic, epistemological and linguistic reverberations of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century theories of biblical interpretation.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Ways of reading the Bible; 2. 'The peculiar language of heaven …': the religious and the poetic 'primal consciousness' and linguistic change; 3. Poetry and prophecy; 4. The paradoxes of disconfirmation; 5. Metaphor and reality; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.8.1988 |
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Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 217 mm |
Gewicht | 430 g |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-36838-3 / 0521368383 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-36838-4 / 9780521368384 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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