About this title: This book charts the mutations of a particularly buoyant sliver of Bible text - the book of Jonah - as it latches onto Christian and Jewish motifs and anxieties, passes through highbrow and lowbrow culture, and finally becomes something of a scavenger among the ruins, as, in its most resourceful move to date, it begins to live off the demise of faith. Written at a point between Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature and Art, this book is concerned with those versions of the biblical that escape proper disciplinary boundaries: it shifts the focus from 'Mainstream' to 'Backwater' ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780521795616ISBN:0521795613
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.02 by.79 inches. (356 pages) how interpretation re-shapes bible texts-the book of jonah. this book is concerned with how interpretation re-shapes texts and will appeal to readers in cultural studies, jewish studies and biblical studies. it pursues the book of jonah and looks at how popular understandings of the book are on a collision course with academic/christian understanding of the text. this book is concerned with how interpretation re-shapes texts and will appeal to ... read more
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780521791748ISBN:052179174X
Description: BRAND NEW. 9.33 by 1.1 inches. (334 pages) how interpretation re-shapes bible texts-the book of jonah. this book is concerned with how interpretation re-shapes texts and will appeal to readers in cultural studies, jewish studies and biblical studies. it pursues the book of jonah and looks at how popular understandings of the book are on a collision course with academic/christian understanding of the text. this book is concerned with how interpretation re-shapes texts and will appeal to readers ... read more
Binding: S paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780521795616ISBN:0521795613
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2001-01-08
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