Melville's Bibles

Melville's Bibles
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9780520941526
ISBN-13 : 0520941527
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Book Synopsis Melville's Bibles by : Ilana Pardes

Download or read book Melville's Bibles written by Ilana Pardes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings—literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.


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