Woman-Imagery in the Bible: Application of Literary Theoretical Approaches in Biblical Interpretation Cover Image

Nőszimbólumok a Bibliában. Irodalomelméleti felismerések gyakorlati alkalmazása az írásértelmezésben
Woman-Imagery in the Bible: Application of Literary Theoretical Approaches in Biblical Interpretation

Author(s): Sára Tóth
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Pannonhalmi Főapátság

Summary/Abstract: This essay explores significant 20th century "post-critical" literary approaches to the Bible by examining scriptural images connected with love and sex, but most of all with women. It discusses the hermeneutics of trust and suspicion in the Biblical woman metaphor first by referring to authors of transcendental symbolism such as G. B. Caird, Northrop Frye and Paul Ricoeur, and, second, to feminists strongly influenced by deconstruction such as Helene Cixous and Phyllis Trible, who oppose to projecting human images to God. Building on a combination of these approaches, the essay then proposes a possible redemptive use of the biblical woman metaphor.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 24-39
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian