Evasive Text Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader

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Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader

Mark Cameron Love | Andrew Mein | Claudia V. Camp

Religion / Biblical Studies / General

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 1-8's surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariah's 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.


Publication Date: 01 November 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Sheffield Academic Press
ISBN-13: 9781841270203
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 272
Weight (oz): 19.84

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