Borderline Exegesis

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Borderline Exegesis vincent wimbush, general editor editorial board: William E. Deal (Case Western Reserve University) Grey Gundaker (William & Mary) Tazim Kassam (Syracuse University) Wesley Kort (Duke University) Laurie Patton (Duke University) R. S. Sugirtharajah (University of Birmingham, UK) Signifying (on) Scriptures, a project of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures at the Claremont Graduate University, invites and challenges scholars from different fields and disciplines to engage the phenomenon of signifying in relationship to “scriptures.” The focus of these works is not upon the content meaning of texts but upon the textures, signs, material products, practices, orientations, politics, and power issues associated with the sociocultural phenomenon of the invention and engagement of scriptures. The defining interest is how peoples, especially the historically dominated, make texts signify as vectors for understanding, establishing, and communicating their identities, agency, and power in the world. other books in the series: Velma Love, Divining the Self: A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness Jennifer Reid, Finding Kluskap: A Journey into Mi’kmaw Myth Isra Yazicioglu, Understanding the Qur’anic Miracle Stories in the Modern Age s i g n i f y i n g ( o n ) s c r i p t u r e s Borderline Exegesis leif e. vaage THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Vaage, Leif E., author. Borderline exegesis / Leif E. Vaage. p. cm — (Signifying (on) Scriptures) Summary: “A textual interpretation of the book of Job, the Gospel of Matthew, the Epistle of James, and Revelation. Includes analysis of the utopian imagination at work in a borderline exegesis”—Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-271-06287-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title. II. Series: Signifying (on) Scriptures. BS511.3.V33 2014 220.6—dc23 2013033714 Copyright © 2014 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992. This book is printed on paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste. For halvor moxnes Han, den galningen, trudde livet sitt til vatnet og aeva. —O. H. Hauge, “Yver hengjemyri” ...