Secularism and Hermeneutics / / Yael Almog.
In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible. However, this assumption concealed a problem—there was no coherent "we" who read the Bible in the same way. In Secularism and He...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Secularism and Hermeneutics: The Rise of Modern Readership
- Chapter 1. Rescuing the Text
- Chapter 2. Hermeneutics and Affect
- Chapter 3. Perilous Script
- Chapter 4. On Jews and Other Bad Readers
- Chapter 5. The Return of the Repressed Bible
- Coda. Beyond Hermeneutic Thinking
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments