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Reading the book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action
Dissertation (MA(Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2009.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/25614 Reading the book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action Venter, P.M. (Pieter Michiel), 1947- shinemann@hanmail.net Kang, Shinman Text-centred approach Divine communicative act Divine discourse Canonical approach Acrostic form Speech-act theory Speaking voice Persona Parallelism of hebrew poetry Polyphonic voice Mikhail m bakhtin Perlocution Illocution Locution Literary criticism Kevin vanhoozer J searle J austin UCTD Dissertation (MA(Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2009. This dissertation is basically a reading the book of Lamentation as a literary whole in a sense of a text-centred approach, which aims to interpret the Scripture as divine communicative action. The major philosophical resources that I employ in this study are the Speech-Act theory developed by J. Austin and J. Searle, and the concepts particularly exemplified in the work of K. Vanhoozer. I look at repetition and literary techniques in Lamentations as a clue to its structural unity. In the body of the dissertation, Instead of historical-critical approaches, I claim that the meaning exists not ‘behind the text,’ but ‘in the text itself as a whole.’ One of the most important literary approaches to understanding the book of Lamentations is to note the poetic voices, which interweave in the text. The poetic voices are my main focus of understanding the book of Lamentations. I explain the literary meaning reading the text and demonstrate that we must find the canonical level of the meaning which supervenes on the literary level. The meaning of a text at a literary level must be carefully studied and modified by the ‘fuller sense (or meaning)’ derived from the canonical context. The ‘fuller sense’ of Scripture associated with divine authorship emerges only at the level of the whole canon. Here for the canonical meaning of the text, I focus on Vanhoozer’s assertion, having proposed the suitability of speech act theory for the various tasks of biblical interpretation and theological hermeneutics. When we read the text, there is no utterance from God in Lamentations. It is the missing voice. The main theme of Lamentations is "Where is the true comfort?". The text presents no comfort. In the literary context, God keeps silent (non-speaking). Canonically, however, Christian readers as God’s people read the Bible, connecting it to Jesus Christ. Within the canonical context, we can indeed find an answer and God’s answering speech (that is, His act), because Jesus is their true comforter acting as God’s response. We can find this response in his teaching (e.g. Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount) and in his mission (e.g. presenting his body as the temple, being Immanuel, God-with-us). Old Testament Studies unrestricted 2013-09-06T22:42:06Z 2009-06-30 2013-09-06T22:42:06Z 2009-04-18 2009-06-30 2009-06-18 Dissertation Kang, S 2008, Reading the Book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action, MA(Theology) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25614 > E1285/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25614 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06182009-161452/ ©University of Pretoria 2008 application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Text-centred approach Divine communicative act Divine discourse Canonical approach Acrostic form Speech-act theory Speaking voice Persona Parallelism of hebrew poetry Polyphonic voice Mikhail m bakhtin Perlocution Illocution Locution Literary criticism Kevin vanhoozer J searle J austin UCTD Reading the book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action |
| title | Reading the book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action |
| title_full | Reading the book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action |
| title_fullStr | Reading the book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reading the book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action |
| title_short | Reading the book of Lamentations as a whole : canonical-literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action |
| title_sort | reading the book of lamentations as a whole canonical literary approach to the scripture as divine communicative action |
| topic | Text-centred approach Divine communicative act Divine discourse Canonical approach Acrostic form Speech-act theory Speaking voice Persona Parallelism of hebrew poetry Polyphonic voice Mikhail m bakhtin Perlocution Illocution Locution Literary criticism Kevin vanhoozer J searle J austin UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25614 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06182009-161452/ |