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.
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Bible.--Gospels--Hermeneutics.
Bible as literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Reader-response criticism. Structuralism.