Take, Read: Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice

by Wesley A. Kort

This book deals with the role of the category of "scripture" within adequate theories of textuality and culture. Wesley Kort is interested in the practice of reading a text as though it were scripture. Beginning with John Calvin's theory of reading, Kort shows that the theory and practice of reading as detailed by Calvin are applied to other texts that begin to be read as scripture and eventually, in the modern period, replace the reading of the Bible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271015926
• ISBN13: 9780271015927
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"