The Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader
This
work employs an eclectic mix of structuralist and post-structuralist
theories in a doomed attempt to discover the symbolic logic at work in
Zechariah 1-8's surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariah's
intra- and intertextual logic, or lack thereof, are presented. It is
finally concluded that Zechariah lacks a concrete symbolic logic, defies
grammatical conventions and is 'unreadable' as it stands-and always was
this way. One suggestion is that it was the intent of the author,
conceived of in a postmodern way, to produce such a work. It is finally
concluded that the 'post-prophetic' age of Hebrew literature has much in
common with the postmodern.
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