The new literary criticism and the New Testament

400 Pages·1994·19.06 MB·English

by  McKnight

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
109
Executive Editor
Stanley E. Porter
Editorial Board
Richard Bauckham, David Catchpole, R. Alan Culpepper,
Joanna Dewey, James D.G. Dunn, Craig A. Evans, Robert Fowler,
Robert Jewett, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Dan O. Via
Sheffield Academic Press
Sheffield
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The New Literary Criticism
and the New Testament
edited by
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
and Edgar V. McKnight
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Supplement Series 109
Copyright © 1994 Sheffield Academic Press
Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd
Mansion House
19KingfieldRoad
Sheffield, SI 19AS
England
Typeset by Sheffield Academic Press
and
Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain
by Bookcraft
Midsomer Norton, Somerset
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
ISBN 1-85075-510-8
In the beginning
(of all our work
as biblical literary critics)
were the words
of Amos Niven Wilder
(1895-1993):
'If the naming of things
is equivalent to
their being called into being,
we find ourselves
on the same ground
with the Genesis account
of the creation.
God spoke and it was done.
Such is the power
of the word...
In the idea
of the creative word
not only is reason implicit
but mutuality and dialogue'
(1964:14).
Thus to the memory
of this man
and in honor
of his work,
in mutuality and dialogue,
we dedicate
this work,
our words.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 9
Abbreviations 10
Contributors to this Volume 12
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and Edgar V. McKnight
Introduction 15
John R. Donahue, SJ
Redaction Criticism: Has the Hauptstrasse Become a Sackgasse! 27
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
The Major Importance of the Minor Characters in Mark 58
John A. Darr
'Watch How You Listen' (Lk. 8.18): Jesus and the Rhetoric
of Perception in Luke-Acts 87
Janice Capel Anderson
Reading Tabitha: A Feminist Reception History 108
Joanna Dewey
The Gospel of Mark as an Oral-Aural Event: Implications for
Interpretation 145
Vernon K. Robbins
Socio-Rhetorical Criticism: Mary, Elizabeth and the Magnificat as
a Test Case 164
Antoinette Clark Wire
'Since God is One': Rhetoric as Theology and History in Paul's
Romans 210
8 The New Literary Criticism and the New Testament
Elizabeth A. Castelli
Allegories of Hagar: Reading Galatians 4.21-31 with Postmodern
Feminist Eyes 228
Tina Pippin
Peering into the Abyss: A Postmodern Reading of the Biblical
Bottomless Pit 251
Stephen D. Moore
How Jesus' Risen Body Became a Cadaver 269
Gary A. Phillips
The Ethics of Reading Deconstructively, or Speaking Face-to-Face:
The Samaritan Woman Meets Derrida at the Well 283
Edgar V. McKnight
A Sheep in Wolfs Clothing: An Option in Contemporary New
Testament Hermeneutics 326
Dan O. Via
Matthew's Dark Light and the Human Condition 348
William A. Beardslee
What Is It About? Reference in New Testament Literary Criticism 367
Index of References 387
Index of Authors 394
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce
copyright material: Mauritshuis, The Hague, for The Anatomy Lesson of
Dr Nicolas Tulp by Rembrandt; Lea & Febiger, Malvern, PA, for the
diagram of the eyeball from Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (ed.
C.M. Goss; 29th edn, 1973), p. 1045; Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis,
MM, for the 'eye-agram' from Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel by R. Alan
Culpepper (Fortress Press, 1983); Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY,
for the diagram from Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction
and Film by Seymour Chatman (Cornell University Press, 1978).