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by George Aichele

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This provocative book pursues a series of questions associated with canons of the Bible. Aichele draws deeply on the insights of poststructuralist literary theory as he pursues these questions. He also engages in close readings of specific biblical and nonbiblical texts to demonstrate ways that canon controls the meanings of its texts.

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This provocative book pursues a series of questions associated with canon(s) of the Bible. How does the canon influence the meaning of the texts of which it is composed? Could texts be "liberated" from the canon, and what would this liberation do to them or to the canon? What does the biblical canon signify about its constituent texts? What does canonical status imply about texts that are included in the Bible, as well as texts that are excluded from it? How does a canon-a cultural and ideological product-influence or create ideology and culture?

In The Control of Biblical Meaning, George Aichele draws deeply on the insights of postructuralist literary theory as he pursues these questions. He also engages in close readings of specific biblical and nonbiblical texts to demonstrate ways that canon controls the meanings of its texts. With dazzling skill, Aichele interrogates the form and function of canon as a mechanism that both reveals and conceals texts from its readers.

George Aichele teaches at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. He is the author of Sign, Text, Scripture: Semiotics and the Bible and Jesus Framed and is a contributor to The Postmodern Bible.

For: Advanced undergraduates; graduate students; biblical scholars; course text

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  • Title The Control of Biblical Meaning
  • Author George Aichele
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Trinity Press International, Harrisburg
  • Publication date 2001-02-01
  • ISBN 9781563383335 / 1563383330
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.57 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.45 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Category Theology - Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Semiotics - Religious aspects - Christianity
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00062853
  • Dewey Decimal Code 220.12

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  • Choice, 09/01/2001, Page 134

About the author

George Aichele is a member of the Bible and Culture Collective, the collaborative author of The Postmodern Bible. He is also the author of Sign Text Scripture and The Control of Biblical Meaning and co-editor with Walsh of Screening Scripture.
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