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Author Pardes, Ilana.

Title Melville's Bibles / Ilana Pardes.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-183) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Playing with Leviathan: Job and the aesthetic turn in biblical exegesis -- "Jonah historically regarded": improvisations on Kitto's Cyclopedia of biblical literature -- "Call me Ishmael": the BIble and the Orient -- Ahab, idolatry, and the question of possession: biblical politics -- Rachel's inconsolable cry: the rise of women's BIbles -- Epilogue.
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Summary Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In "Moby-Dick," he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In "Melville's Bibles," Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings - literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.
Subject Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Religion.
Bible -- Commentaries.
Bible -- Hermeneutics.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick -- Religion.
Bible -- Commentaries -- Hermeneutics.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. (OCoLC)fst00030216
Bible. (OCoLC)fst01356024
Moby Dick (Melville, Herman) (OCoLC)fst01356235
Bible and literature.
Religion and culture.
Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
Bible and literature. (OCoLC)fst00831217
Hermeneutics. (OCoLC)fst00955492
Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
Religion and culture. (OCoLC)fst01093823
Religion and literature. (OCoLC)fst01093839
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Commentaries. (OCoLC)fst01423723
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Pardes, Ilana. Melville's Bibles. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007014870
Standard No. 9786611385712
ISBN 0520941527 (electronic bk.)
9780520941526 (electronic bk.)
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