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 |