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Moore, Stephen D., 1954-

Literary criticism and the Gospels : the theoretical challenge / Stephen D. Moore. - xxii, 226 pages.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 185-221.

Introduction : Prodigal scholars and the literary swerve -- Part One : Gospel criticism as narrative criticism. Reading for the story I : unregistered border crossings in gospel criticism -- Reading for the story II : postcritical targums on the gospels -- Points of view in/on a gospel -- The narrative mechanics of a gospel -- The place of gospel theology in a story-centered gospel criticism -- -- Part Two : Gospel criticism as reading. Stories of reading : doing gospel criticism as/with a reader -- Stories of reading that have no ending : an introduction to the postmodern Bible -- Stories of reading that come undone : misadventures in postcriticism -- Conclusion : New Testament criticism and mythology : demythologizing today.

ISBN: 0300045255

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Gospels--Hermeneutics.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Bible as literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Reader-response criticism.
Structuralism.

LC Class. No.: BS255.5 / .M585 1989

Dewey Class. No.: 226.066