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After almost two centuries of historical criticism, biblical scholarship has recently undergone major shifts, most notably toward the literary study of the Bible. Much germinal criticism has taken as its primary focus narrative texts of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament). This study provides a lucid guide to the interpretive possibilities of this movement. Attempting to be both theoretical and...

Finally, where historical criticism saw texts as fixed expressions of a particular meaning and viewpoint, we understand texts to be inherently unstable, since they contain within themselves the threads of their own unravelling. Language is always slipping. In order to make a point, the narrator must always imply the counterpoint. To construct the narrative world the narrator must suppress something—something that a suspicious reader may choose to dig up. ‘Deconstructive’ criticism seeks to expound
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