Semeia 62: Textual Determinacy, Part One
Restore columns
Exit Fullscreen

Semeia 62

Textual Determinacy, Part One

Robert C. Culley and Robert Bruce Robinson, eds.

Copyright © 1993 by Society of Biblical Literature.

Published in Atlanta, GA.

Contents

Contributors to This Issue

Introduction

Robert C. Culley

I. Essays

Textualizing Determinacy/Determining Textuality

Richard Cooper

Psalm 102 a Complaint with a Difference

Robert C. Culley

What Shall We Do with Judith? a Feminist Reassessment of a Biblical “Heroine”

Pamela J. Milne

Textual Constraints, Ordinary Readings, and Critical Exegeses: An Androcritical Perspective

Daniel Patte

Text and Contexts: Interpreting the Disciples in Mark

Elizabeth Struthers Malbon

Wife and Sister Through the Ages: Textual Determinacy and the History of Interpretation

Robert B. Robinson

Reading Texts Through Worlds, Worlds Through Texts

Vincent L. Wimbush

II. Comments

The Role of the Text in the Reading Process

Adele Berlin

The Challenge of Multicontextual Interpretation

John Dominic Crossan

Textual Determinacy: A Response

Burke O. Long

“Mirror, Mirror …”: Lacanian Reflections on Malbon’s Mark

Stephen D. Moore

Contributors to This Issue

Adele Berlin

Department of Hebrew and East Asian Languages and Literatures

2106 Jimenez Hall

University of Maryland at College Park, MD 20742

Richard Cooper

1017 St. Joseph Blvd. East, # 1

Montreal, Quebec H2J 1L2

Canada

John Dominic Crossan

Department of Religion

DePaul University

2323 North Seminary Avenue

Chicago, IL 60614

Robert C. Culley

Faculty of Religious Studies

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7

Canada

Burke O. Long

Department of Religion

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, ME 04011

Elizabeth Struthers Malbon

Department of Religion

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Pamela J. Milne

Department of Religious Studies

University of Windsor

Windsor, Ont N9B 3P4

Canada

Stephen D. Moore

Department of Religion

Wichita State University

Wichita, KS 67208

Daniel Patte

Box 1704

Station B

Department of Religious Studies

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN 37325

Robert B. Robinson

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

7301 Germantown Ave

Philadelphia, PA 19119

Vincent L. Wimbush

Union Theological Seminary

3401 Broadway

New York, NY 10027–5714

Introduction

Robert C. Culley

McGill University

This is the first of two volumes that will bear the title “Textual Determinacy.” In choosing the term “textual determinacy,” the editors wanted to raise the question of the relationship between texts and reading and the extent to which meaning is determined by texts or by the reading process. It is probably not a question of either/or but rather of an interplay between the two. If this is so, however, how should one describe that interplay? Some biblical scholars are already engaged in the discussion of these issues, and this has forced consideration of the matter in biblical studies. Behind this double question about text and reading lies a discussion of immense scope which runs through many disciplines.

Clearly, our two volumes will hardly ...

Content not shown in limited preview…
S62:TDPO

About Semeia 62: Textual Determinacy, Part One

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.

Support Info

semeia62

Table of Contents