num_pages: 160
description: 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?
language: English
title: The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study
titlecomplete: The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 354)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Sheffield Academic Press