| Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory Contributor(s): Spolsky, Ellen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791415260 ISBN-13: 9780791415269 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 92023258 |
| Series: Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: (0.86 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This 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. |