Circumscribing the Prostitute

Portada
A&C Black, 2004 M01 1 - 200 páginas
In Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 the prophet employs the image of Israel as God's unfaithful wife, who acts like a prostitute. The entire passage is a rich and complex rhetorical tapestry designed to convince the people of Israel of the error of their political and religious ways, and their need to change before it is too late.

As well as metaphor and gender, another important thread in the tapestry is intertextuality, according to which the historical, political and social contexts of both author and reader enter into dialogue and thus produce different interpretations. But, as Shields shows in her final chapter, it is in the end the rhetoric of gender that actually constructs the text, providing the frame, the warp and woof, of the entire tapestry, and thus the prophet's primary means of persuasion.

Dentro del libro

Páginas seleccionadas

Contenido

Introduction
1
A FIRST READING OF JEREMIAH 315
21
A SECOND READING OF JEREMIAH 315
51
A NARRATIVE INTERPRETATION OF JEREMIAH 315
71
THE IMPOSSIBLE MADE POSSIBLE
92
A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE
100
SET AMONG THE SONSISRAEL AS FAITHLESS DAUGHTER
115
A LITURGY OF REPENTANCE
124
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR RETURN
136
RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND JEREMIAH 3144
161
Bibliography
168
Index of References
176
Index of Authors
182
Derechos de autor

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Información bibliográfica