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The Evasive Text

Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader

  • Hardback
  • 274 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

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For scholars and readers exploring biblical texts

Addresses confusion in understanding Zechariah’s message

You will gain insight into its postmodern implications

This book unravels the complex narrative of Zechariah 1-8.

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This work employs an eclectic mix of structuralist and post-structuralist theories in a doomed attempt to discover the symbolic logic at work in Zechariah 1-8's surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariah's intra- and intertextual logic, or lack thereof, are presented. It is finally concluded that Zechariah lacks a concrete symbolic logic, defies grammatical conventions and is 'unreadable' as it stands-and always was this way. One suggestion is that it was the intent of the author, conceived of in a postmodern way, to produce such a work. It is finally concluded that the 'post-prophetic' age of Hebrew literature has much in common with the postmodern.

  • Title

    The Evasive Text

  • Author

    Mark Cameron Love

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    November 1999

  • Weight

    491g

  • Page Count

    274

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781841270203

  • ISBN-10

    1841270202

  • Eden Code

    1180909