Semeia 69-70: Intertextuality and the Bible
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“When biblical scholars attempt to explain phenomena like allusion, citation, and allegorical interpretation as forms of intertextuality, what they are really concerned with is agency and influence. Typically they have in mind historicist models of agency as a way to account for ‘influence.’” (Pages 11–12)
“In this broader ideological and cultural critical setting attention to intertextuality compels a rethinking of the privileged notions of authorial consciousness and intentionality, as well as any theory of meaning which would seek to isolate meaning at a safe distance ‘inside’ the text.” (Pages 13–14)
“Theoretical reflection upon intertextuality is demanded to help explain and to engage the complexities and power of biblical texts within culture, both past and present, and to expose the narrative unconscious that shapes a West in which the Bible functions as a primary sub-text that legitimates hatred not only of Jews but of women, gays and lesbians, the poor, and any marginalized other.” (Page 13)
“It would be a mistake, however, to limit intertextuality to the domain of literary relationships. For as the following essays illustrate, intertextuality is very much concerned with a range of social practices and cultural expressions, including but not limited to literary texts.” (Page 7)
“Intertextuality underscores the role of interference in the social setting where texts, subjects, and meaning are constructed.” (Page 8)
- George Aichele
- Timothy Beal
- Roland Boer
- Daniel Boyarin
- Robert L. Brawley
- Jean Calloud
- Laura E. Donaldson
- William Doty
- Susan Lochrie Graham
- Tod Linafelt
- Peter D. Miscall
- Gary A. Phillips
- Tina Pippin
- James W. Voelz
- Nicole Wilkinson
- Title: Semeia 69-70: Intertextuality and the Bible
- Editors: George Aichele, Jr. and Gary Phillips
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1996
- Pages: 305
George Aichele, Jr. is a member of the Bible and Culture Collective, the collaborative author of The Postmodern Bible. He is also the author of Sign Text Scripture and The Control of Biblical Meaning and co-editor with Walsh of Screening Scripture.
