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Author Stahlberg, Lesleigh Cushing

Title Sustaining fictions : intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg
Published New York : T & T Clark, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
Series Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 486
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 486.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Contents Speaking the world into being -- From Moses to Moses, there is none like Moses -- The three dimensions : approach, stance, and filter -- The three paradigms : intertextuality, Midrash, translation -- Creation in the image -- Reception theory and literary afterlives -- Talking about the literary afterlife of the Bible -- The art of biblical retelling -- According to the likeness -- Literary criticism and the interrelationships of texts -- Imitation -- Invention -- Influence -- Intertextuality -- Naming the animals -- Inventiveness in retelling -- Intentional interrelationships -- Naming the animals -- Hyptertexts generate hypertexts -- Is it in heaven? -- Midrash and literature -- What is Midrash? : the two faces of Midrash : Halakhah and Aggadah -- The nature of the Aggadah -- The inner logic of Aggadic Midrash -- What is the Midrash of the literary theorists? -- Postmodern Midrash -- Midrash and indeterminacy? -- It is not in heaven : the problems with the Midrash of the literary theorists -- What is modern Midrash? -- The Jewish question -- The word is very near -- From Aggadah to Halakhah : co-opting the vocabulary of Midrash -- The Middot : principles of rabbinic exegesis -- The viability of co-opting (anew) the vocabulary of Midrash -- Let us confound their language -- The literary afterlife : where retelling and translation intersect -- Theories and theoretical vocabularies of translation -- The science of translation -- Early translation studies -- Polysystem theory -- Deconstruction (or, translation and the vocabulary of deformation) -- The approach of the translator -- Unto all languages that dwell in the earth -- The stance of the translator -- Translating the language of translation -- Translation as cure -- These are the words -- What is the what? -- The language of approach -- The language of stance -- The language of filter -- Sustaining fictions
Summary Even before the biblical canon became fixed, writers have revisited and reworked its stories. The author of Joshua takes the haphazard settlement of Israel recorded in the Book of Judges and retells it as an orderly military conquest. The writer of Chronicles expurgates the David cycle in Samuel I and II, offering an upright and virtuous king devoid of baser instincts. This literary phenomenon is not contained to inner-biblical exegesis. Once the telling becomes known, the retellings begin: through the New Testament, rabbinic midrash, medieval mystery plays, medieval and Renaissance poet
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament -- Translating
Midrash -- History and criticism
Bible. Old Testament fast
Pessach-Haggada gnd
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Altes Testament. idszbz
Subject Bible as literature.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Bible as literature
Midrash
Midrasch
Rezeption
Jüdische Literatur
Intertextualität
Rabbinische Literatur
Altes Testament -- Literatur.
Literatur -- Altes Testament.
Midrasch -- Literatur.
Literatur -- Midrasch.
Intertextualität -- Altes Testament.
Altes Testament -- Intertextualität.
Altes Testament -- Übersetzung.
Altes Testament -- Rezeption.
Bibelübersetzung.
Midrasch.
Intertextualität.
Rabbinische Literatur.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567536457
0567536459