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Summoning : ideas of the covenant and interpretive theory

Title: Summoning : ideas of the covenant and interpretive theory / edited by Ellen Spolsky.
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Spolsky, Ellen, 1943-

Description

xvi, 272 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Uniform Title

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Papers of a conference sponsored by the Lechter Institute for Literary Research in cooperation with the Kaplan Fund for American Literature, held in the fall of 1989 at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Power and constraint / Harold Fisch -- Biblical covenants as performative language / Gerda Elata-Alster and Rachel Salmon -- Facing the other / Susan Handelman -- The difficulty of finding a moral basis for accepting the covenant / Daniel Statman -- The perpetual covenant in Jewish learning / Menachem Fisch -- The sign of the covenant / Betty Rojtman -- Redesigning redemption / Betsy Halpern-Amaru -- Placing reading / Daniel Boyarin -- Binding and unbinding / Elizabeth Freund -- American literature's declaration of In/dependence / Emily Miller Budick -- Intertextuality and reader responsibility / Sharon Deykin Baris -- "The new covenant" and the dilemma of dissensus / Sam B. Girgus.

ISBN

0791415252
9780791415252
0791415260
9780791415269

LCCN

92023258

OCLC

ocm26361055
26361055
SCSB-1994389

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Princeton University Library