Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study

By Susan Gillingham

The purpose of this book is to illustrate that reading is a subjective process which results in multivalent interpretations. This is the case whether one looks at a text in its historical contexts (the diachronic approach) or its literary contexts (the synchronic approach). Three representative texts are chosen from the Law (Genesis 2-3), the Writings (Isaiah 23) and the Prophets (Amos 5), and each is read first by way of historical analysis and then by literary analysis. Each text provides a number of variant interpretations and raises the question--is any one interpretation superior? What criteria do we use to measure this? Or is there value in the complementary nature of many approaches and many results?>

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841272973
• ISBN13: 9781841272979
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.1"