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The control of biblical meaning: canon as semiotic mechanism

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This provocative book pursues a series of questions associated with canon(s) of the Bible. How does the canon influence the meaning of the texts of which it is composed? Could texts be "liberated" from the canon, and what would this liberation do to them or to the canon? What does the biblical canon signify about its constituent texts? What does canonical status imply about texts that are included in the Bible, as well as texts that are excluded from it? How does a canon—a cultural and ideological product—influence or create ideology and culture? In The Control of Biblical Meaning, George Aichele draws deeply on the insights of post truturalist literary theory as he pursues these questions. He also engages in close readings of specific biblical and non biblical texts to demonstrate ways that canon controls the meanings of its texts.

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181103068

220.12 AIC c

Z. HANDIMAN

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220.12 AIC c

Publisher

Harrisburg : Trinity Press., 2001

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xi,259p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

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1-56338-333-0

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220.12

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BIBLE-CANON

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