Polka Brayton: Of scripture, paradox, and interpretation : "What is written in the law? How do you read?". In: Papers in English and American studies : Tomus IV. - Literary theory and biblical hermeneutics : proceedings of the International Conference: "Reading Scripture - Literary Criticism and Biblical Hermeneutics", Pannonhalma, 4-6 July, 1991, (4). pp. 127-140. (1992)
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The paper explores how writing, law and reading are tighly bound up with ' the paradox of interpretation (the interpretation of paradox). The author argues that outside paradox and interpretation there is no writing, no law, and no reading. There is nothing outside paradox and interpretation. But if there is nothing — no writing, law or reading outside paradox and interpretation, then it follows that there is no writing outside Scripture and no Scripture outside writing. Where writing is, there must the Bible be; and where the Bible is, there must writing be. To embrace the revelation that there is. nothing outside writing/Scripture (paradox and interpretation) is to deconstruct all hierarchial (binary or contradictory) oppositions between literature, philosophy, theology and scripture: the Bible/writing — by showing that Ezekiel's critical distinction between the new spirit of the heart of flesh and the old heart of stone entails that between metaphor and simile, paradox and contradiction, interpretátion and analysis, truth and idol, reason and logic, history and myth, freedom (salvation) and slavery (sin), faith and ... 2If there is nothing outside the written law of reading (reading the written law), then scripture (Scripture) eternally constitutes modernity as the crisis of history in which the undecidably free choice of the covenant overcomes all dualisms between precritical and postcritical, between premodern (religious) and postmodern (secular), between prehistorical and posthistorical. There is nothing outside scripture: „What is written in the law? How do you read?"
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Papers in English and American studies : Tomus IV. - Literary theory and biblical hermeneutics : proceedings of the International Conference: "Reading Scripture - Literary Criticism and Biblical Hermeneutics", Pannonhalma, 4-6 July, 1991 |
| Date: | 1992 |
| Volume: | 4 |
| ISSN: | 0230-2780 |
| Page Range: | pp. 127-140 |
| Series Name: | Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila József nominatae : papers in english and american studies |
| Language: | English |
| Related URLs: | https://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/68570/ |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Hermeneutika - bibliai, Bibliamagyarázat |
| Additional Information: | Bibliogr.: p. 138-140. és a lábjegyzetekben ; összefoglalás angol nyelven |
| Subjects: | 06. Humanities 06. Humanities > 06.03. Philosophy, ethics and religion |
| Date Deposited: | 2025. Jan. 21. 14:05 |
| Last Modified: | 2025. Jan. 24. 10:38 |
| URI: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/68658 |
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