LEADER 02210cam a22003978i 4500001 99113540383506421 005 20201014110454.0 006 m o d 007 cr mn |||||a|a 008 090717s1986 enk o ||1 0|eng|d 020 9780511597473 (ebook) 020 |z9780521322485 (hardback) 020 |z9780521368384 (paperback) 035 |9(UkCbUP)CR9780511597473 035 (NjP)11354038-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager11354038 040 UkCbUP |beng |erda |cUkCbUP 050 00 BS476 |b.P75 1986 082 00 220.6/01/09033 |219 090 Electronic Resource 100 1 Prickett, Stephen, |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81052370 245 10 Words and the Word : |blanguage, poetics, and biblical interpretation / |cStephen Prickett. 246 3 Words & The Word 264 1 Cambridge : |bCambridge University Press, |c1986. 300 1 online resource (xii, 305 pages) 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 500 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Feb 2016). 505 0 Ways of reading the Bible -- 'The peculiar language of heaven ... ' -- Poetry and prophecy -- The paradoxes of disconfirmation -- Metaphor and reality. 520 First published in 1986, Stephen Prickett's Words and the 'Word' has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. In this highly-acclaimed book Prickett pursues the question of the relationship between religion and poetics, and in particular the nature of religious language, investigating the hermeneutic, epistemological and linguistic reverberations of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century theories of biblical interpretation. 630 00 Bible |xHermeneutics. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013650 650 0 Language and languages |xReligious aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074576 650 0 Criticism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034149 730 0 Cambridge University Press. |pReligion. 776 08 |iPrint version: |z9780521322485