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Melville's Bibles

  • Paperback
  • 206 pages
  • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
  • 15.6 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In "Moby-Dick," he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In "Melville's Bibles," Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings -literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.
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  • Title

    Melville's Bibles

  • Author

    Ilana Pardes

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

  • Published

    February 2008

  • Weight

    277g

  • Page Count

    206

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520254558

  • ISBN-10

    0520254554

  • Eden Code

    1151368

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