Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive TheoryThis book explores the variety of ways that the Jewish understanding of the Covenant relates to the notion of a contract or a shared grammar as developed in recent structural and post-structural theory. The book enters the debate on the relationship beween a variety of open-ended forms of text interpretation and traditional Jewish interpretive practice, expanding and deepening that debate. Until now, the discussion has focused primarily on Midrashic interpretation; these essays balance the assumption of the openness of interpretation with an exploration of the concurrent restrictions on interpretation imposed by a covenant. |
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Table des matières
Power and Constraint Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton | 1 |
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES | 25 |
Biblical Covenants as Performative Language | 27 |
Facing the Other Levinas Perelman and Rosenzweig | 47 |
The Difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant | 71 |
The Perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning | 91 |
The Sign of the Covenant | 115 |
COVENANTS AND TEXTS | 129 |
Redesigning Redemption Covenant in the Testament of Moses | 131 |
Placing Reading Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe | 153 |
Binding and Unbinding The Summons to Interpretation in The Merchant of Venice | 187 |
American Literatures Declaration of In I dependence Stanley Cavell Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Covenant of Consent | 211 |
Intertextuality and Reader Responsibility Living On in Malamuds The Mourners | 229 |
The New Covenant and the Dilemma of Dissensus Bercovitch Roth and Doctorow | 251 |
Contributors | 271 |
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East |
| Rédacteur | Ellen Spolsky |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | SUNY Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0791415252, 9780791415252 |
| Longueur | 272 pages |
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