Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader

By Mark Cameron Love

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 1-8s surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariahs 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841270202
• ISBN13: 9781841270203
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"