On the Way to the Postmodern. Volume I.

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the 50 chapters of these two volumes David J. A. Clines presents a series of discourses spanning three decades from an increasingly postmodern perspective. Rather than using only methods of deconstruction he combines traditional methods with postmodern ideas of analysis resulting in a substantial reading of the Hebrew Bible.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Clines's selected sequence of articles and papers-ten of them not previously published-displays a golden thread of a scholar's journey in biblical interpretation. Some of the papers like 'The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered' are far from postmodern in their outlook and sit in intriguing juxtaposition with others such as 'The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies'.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The essays are organized in eight sections; </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Method Literature History (Vol. I.)</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Theology Language Psalms Job and entertainingly Divertimenti (Vol. II). They include 'Reading Esther from Left to Right' 'Beyond Synchronic Diachronic' 'Story and Poem: The Old Testament as Literature and as Scripture' 'In Search of the Indian Job' and 'Philology and Power'.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Further items in this first volume to highlight are:  </span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International Perspective</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What Has (and Has Not) Happened at SBL International Meetings</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Force of the Text: A Response to Tamara C. Eskenazi</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Quest of the Historical Mordecai</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This volume is a reprint of the original 1998 edition.</span></p><p></p>