Summoning Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory

By:

Spolsky, Ellen

Contributor(s):

Spolsky, Ellen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Albany State University of New York Press 1993Description: 272pISBN:

0791415260

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DDC classification:

B55.6 SP650

Partial contents:

Power and constraint : Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton ..........1 Theoretical Perspectives Biblical Covenants as Performative language ....27 Facing the other : Levinas, Perelman, And Rosenzweig.......47 The difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant .......71 THe perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning ..........91 THe sign of the Covenant .....115 Covenants and texts Redesigning redemption : Covenants in the Testament of Moses ...............131 Placing reading : Ancient israel and Medieval Europe ........155 Binding and unbinding : The Summons to interpretation in the Merchant of Venice ..........187 American Literature`s Declaration of In /Dependence : Stanley cavell, Nathaniel Hawthrone, and the Covenant of Consent ............211 Intertextuality and Reader responsibility: Living on In Malamud`s The Mourners ...........229 THe new Covenant and the dilemma of Dissensus : Bercovitech, roth, and Doctrorow ..................251

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Power and constraint : Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton ..........1
Theoretical Perspectives
Biblical Covenants as Performative language ....27
Facing the other : Levinas, Perelman, And Rosenzweig.......47
The difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant .......71
THe perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning ..........91
THe sign of the Covenant .....115
Covenants and texts
Redesigning redemption : Covenants in the Testament of Moses ...............131
Placing reading : Ancient israel and Medieval Europe ........155
Binding and unbinding : The Summons to interpretation in the Merchant of Venice ..........187
American Literature`s Declaration of In /Dependence : Stanley cavell, Nathaniel Hawthrone, and the Covenant of Consent ............211
Intertextuality and Reader responsibility: Living on In Malamud`s The Mourners ...........229
THe new Covenant and the dilemma of Dissensus : Bercovitech, roth, and Doctrorow ..................251

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