This volume offers a meeting between genre theory in biblical studies and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who continues to be immensely influential in literary criticism. Here Bakhtin comes face to face with a central area of biblical studies: the question of genre. The essays range from general discussions of genre through the reading of specific biblical texts to an engagement with Toni Morrison and the Bible. The contributors are John Anderson, Roland Boer, Martin J. Buss, Judy Fentress-Williams, Christopher Fuller, Barbara Green, Bula Maddison, Carleen Mandolfo, Christine Mitchell, Carol A. Newsom, David M. Valeta, and Michael Vines.
Author(s): Roland Boer
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 247
Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
Introduction: Bakhtin, Genre and Biblical Studies......Page 10
Dialogue in and among Genres......Page 18
Spying Out the Land: A Report from Genology*......Page 28
Power, Eros, and Biblical Genres......Page 40
Experiential Learning: The Construction of Jonathan in the Narrative of Saul and David......Page 52
Location, Location, Location: Tamar in the Joseph Cycle......Page 68
Dialogic Form Criticism: An Intertextual Reading of Lamentations and Psalms of Lament*......Page 78
Polyglossia and Parody: Language in Daniel 1–6......Page 100
The Apocalyptic Chronotope......Page 118
Matthew’s Genealogy as Eschatological Satire: Bakhtin Meets Form Criticism......Page 128
Bakhtin’s Dialogism and the Corrective Rhetoric of the Johannine Misunderstanding Dialogue: Exposing Seven Crises in the Johannine Situation......Page 142
Liberation Story or Apocalypse? Reading Biblical Allusion and Bakhtin Theory in Toni Morrison’s Beloved......Page 170
Response—Beyond Formalism: Genre and the Analysis of Biblical Texts......Page 184
Response—Using Bakhtin’s Lexicon Dialogicae to Interpret Canon, Apocalyptic, New Testament, and Toni Morrison......Page 196
Works Consulted......Page 214
Contributors......Page 230
Index of Ancient Sources......Page 234
Index of Authors......Page 244
