What Does Eve Do To Help?: And Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament
Readerly
questions are raised when readers are explicitly and programmatically
brought into the process of interpreting texts. Traditionally, the
reader and readerly interest and identities have been screened out when
we have set about interpreting texts, and we have set our sights on
attaining an interpretation that shouldbe as "objective " as possible.
Things are rather different now. Not only is quest for objective
interpretation seen as chiaera, but the rewards of unabashed "readerly"
interpretations that foreground the process of reading and the context
of the reader have now been shown to be very well worth seeking. That
reader-response approach characterizes this collection of six essays,
prefaces by an introduction to reader-response criticism. The essays for
the most part read in their original form to meetings of the Society of
Biblical Literature, are: "What Does Eve Do To Help? and other
Irredeemably Androcentric Orienations in Genesis 1-3"; What Happens in
Genesis"; "The Ancestor in Danger: But Not the Same Danger"; " The Old
Testament Histories: A Reader's Guide"; "Deconstructing the Book of
Job"; and "Nehemiah Memoir: The perils of Autobigraphy". ".....one of
the livliest writers on the Old Testament. " What Does Eve Do To Help ?"
does not disappoint and at times is hailariously funny" C S Rodd
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