Born-Again Bibles : Biblical Studies after the “Death of the Author”
(2019) In Biblical Interpretation Series 172. p.94-107- Abstract
- In this chapter, I address the “containment” of meaning in relation to questions of authorship (or lack of authorship) in biblical studies. By revisiting Roland Barthes’ and Michel Foucault’s critiques of the author figure, I suggest that the implication for biblical studies is the opening of meaning-making beyond the figure of the author in his or her original context. Engaging with Brennan Breed’s study on the divide between exegesis and reception history, I argue that biblical reception history can more radically counter the “containments” and “closures” of writing that Barthes and Foucault criticize. I suggest that the inherent “veering” movement of the Bible – or rather, bibles – prompts a different approach to biblical studies.... (More)
- In this chapter, I address the “containment” of meaning in relation to questions of authorship (or lack of authorship) in biblical studies. By revisiting Roland Barthes’ and Michel Foucault’s critiques of the author figure, I suggest that the implication for biblical studies is the opening of meaning-making beyond the figure of the author in his or her original context. Engaging with Brennan Breed’s study on the divide between exegesis and reception history, I argue that biblical reception history can more radically counter the “containments” and “closures” of writing that Barthes and Foucault criticize. I suggest that the inherent “veering” movement of the Bible – or rather, bibles – prompts a different approach to biblical studies. Biblical studies can function as a specifically outward-facing intellectual endeavor that takes into account ongoing meaning-making supplementary to and symbiotic with other academic disciplines. (Less)
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- author
- Strømmen, Hannah M. LU
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Authorship, Barthes, Biblical Studies, biblical authorship, veering
- host publication
- Biblical Exegesis without Authorial Intension?
- series title
- Biblical Interpretation Series
- editor
- Breu, Clarissa
- volume
- 172
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- Brill
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85108556830
- ISSN
- 0928-0731
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-37955-8
- 978-90-04-39581-7
- DOI
- 10.1163/9789004379558_008
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
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- c0b5ccb7-0caa-4932-a5ce-a65fba13be4d
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publisher = {{Brill}},
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title = {{Born-Again Bibles : Biblical Studies after the “Death of the Author”}},
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