Reading With a Passion: Rhetoric, Autobiography, and the American West in the Gospel of John
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Book Overview
In this account of literary approaches to the Bible, Jeffrey Staley shows how people's life experiences relate to what they read in the Scriptures. He illustrates his argument from theories of autobiography, where recent literary and feminist critiques provide him with tools for reflecting upon his childhood on a Navajo reservation and his family's five generations of contact with the Navajo people in northern Arizona and New Mexico. Using Tony Hillerman's popular detective novels as a lens to refract his own childhood and family history have contributed to his understanding of the fourth Gospel. By combining such diverse materials as popular fiction, medieval passion plays, cultural anthropology, rhetorical studies and autobiographical reflection, Staley takes his readers on a spiritual and intellectual journey through the Gospel of John.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:082641432X
ISBN13:9780826414328
Release Date:June 2002
Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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sparkles with the narrative pace of good literature
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
"Staley's book compels us to reconsider the entire goal and genre of bibilcal criticism. Grounded in sophisticated and capacious theoretical analysis, intimate knowledge of the critical issues pertaining to the Fourth Gospel, and perceptive, remarkably self-revealing autobiographical reflection, Staley's interpretive wager sparkles with the narrative pace, philospohical depth and unsettling power of good literature. If this is 'reading with a passion,' let us have more of it." From a forthcoming review in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, by Douglas Burton-Christie
I think that every biblical scholar ought to read this book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
I think that every biblical scholar should read this book, and every scholar of religion should read it, because I know of no better place that one can EXPERIENCE the problematics and possibilities of reading texts--either ancient or modern--and experience the issues of interpretation. Staley's book is one that INVITES rereading. And the rereading experience will bring a new reading experience simply because of how the book is designed. I can honestly say that this book comes as close to the experience of reading hypertext in the computer world as I ever expect one can come in printed form. Extraordinary both in terms of its unusual and stimulating content, and in its high quality and insightfulness. Buy it; read it--many times. I have; I will. Denny Clark, Albertson College, ID
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