Canons in Conflict

Negotiating Texts in True and False Prophecy

By: James E. Brenneman

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Hardcover | 9 August 2001

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In this new study, James Brenneman confronts the issue of conflicting canons with full force, incorporating insights gained from both literary and biblical disciplines on the question of canon. He begins with an illuminating tour through contemporary literary theory from Hans Robert Jauss to Stanley Fish, and current discussions in theology about the canon. He goes on to a consideration of true and false prophesy, with a detailed examination of the three apparently conflicting versions of the Old Testament "swords into plowshares" prophesy, as found in Isaiah 2:2-4,5; Joel 4:9-12 (Eng. 3:9-12); and Micah 4:1-5. Suggesting that the dynamics controlling the process for negotiating between contradictory readings of prophetic texts are the same as those at work in adjudicating between canons in conflict, Brenneman concludes by pointing the way towards an integrative approach appropriate to the question of canon and authority in a "post-modern" pluralistic context.

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"An extremely well-done piece of work....He makes a real contribution through his clarity about the relationship between literary theory and canon criticism, as well as how those issues are related to true and false prophecy. Moreover, his willingness to take on what might be one of the hardest cases--that of the plowshare text--is exemplary for its candor as well as how he provides an example of such readings."--Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University "An extremely well-done piece of work....He makes a real contribution through his clarity about the relationship between literary theory and canon criticism, as well as how those issues are related to true and false prophecy. Moreover, his willingness to take on what might be one of the hardest cases--that of the plowshare text--is exemplary for its candor as well as how he provides an example of such readings."--Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University

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Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction: Engaging the Battle	p. 3
Contradiction, Community, And Canon
Contradiction and Intertextuality	p. 13
Prophet against Prophet	p. 13
Contradiction: The Nature of Reality and Canonical Process	p. 16
Intertextuality and Canonical Hermeneutics	p. 17
Conclusions: Canon and Chaos	p. 25
Reader Response and Community of Interpretation	p. 28
The Bible as Story	p. 28
Reader-Response Criticism	p. 29
The Community of Interpretation	p. 38
Conclusions: The Readers' Canon	p. 43
The Fall and Rise of Canons	p. 52
The Fall of the Canon: The Problem of Canon	p. 52
The Rise of Canons and Their Canonical Communities	p. 64
Conclusions: God and Canon Power	p. 74
Negotiating Readings In True And False Prophecy
True and False Prophecy in Canonical Criticism	p. 83
The Unfolding Story of Research in True and False Prophecy	p. 84
The Ethos of Mythos and the Politics of Canon	p. 93
Conclusions: Truth in Canon Politics	p. 106
Swords into Plowshares into Swords	p. 111
Negotiating Readings: Rationale and Method	p. 111
Tradition-Gestalt and the Reader	p. 114
The Tradition-Gestalt of the Plowshare Passages	p. 114
Canon as Function: Diachronic Readings of the Plowshare Passages	p. 118
Canon as Context: Synchronic Reading of the Plowshare Passages	p. 132
Conclusions: Canon Hermeneutics	p. 133
A Final Reading: Which Prophet? Whose Truth?	p. 136
Postscript: Instead of a Conclusion	p. 137
"Here I Stand": Under the Authority of the Community	p. 140
Notes	p. 149
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 219
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