Circumscribing the Prostitute
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Circumscribing the Prostitute

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Circumscribing the Prostitute

About this book

In Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 the prophet employs the image of Israel as God's unfaithful wife, who acts like a prostitute. The entire passage is a rich and complex rhetorical tapestry designed to convince the people of Israel of the error of their political and religious ways, and their need to change before it is too late. As well as metaphor and gender, another important thread in the tapestry is intertextuality, according to which the historical, political and social contexts of both author and reader enter into dialogue and thus produce different interpretations. But, as Shields shows in her final chapter, it is in the end the rhetoric of gender that actually constructs the text, providing the frame, the warp and woof, of the entire tapestry, and thus the prophet's primary means of persuasion.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780826469991
eBook ISBN
9780826435361
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 INTERTEXTUALITY AS ALLUSION: A FIRST READING OF JEREMIAH 3.1-5
  6. Chapter 2 GENDER CONSTRUCTION AND INTERTEXTUALITY OF CULTURE: A SECOND READING OF JEREMIAH 3.1-5
  7. Chapter 3 JEREMIAH 3.6-11: A NARRATIVE INTERPRETATION OF JEREMIAH 3.1-5
  8. Chapter 4 JEREMIAH 3.12-13: THE IMPOSSIBLE MADE POSSIBLE
  9. Chapter 5 JEREMIAH 3.14-18: A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE
  10. Chapter 6 JEREMIAH 3.19-20: SET AMONG THE SONS—ISRAEL AS FAITHLESS DAUGHTER
  11. Chapter 7 JEREMIAH 3.21-25: A LITURGY OF REPENTANCE
  12. Chapter 8 JEREMIAH 4.1-4: THE REQUIREMENTS FOR RETURN
  13. Chapter 9 NEW SIGHTS FROM AN OLD SEER: RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND JEREMIAH 3.1-4.4
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index of References
  16. Index of Authors