Sign, Text, and Scripture: Semiotics and the Bible

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

GEORGE AICHELE, Sign, Text, and Scripture: Semiotics and the Bible (Interventions l; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997). Pp. 163. Paper 9.95, $14.95.

Any book on semiotics and the Bible is something to look forward to. The field of semiotics is still very much unknown to many biblical scholars, even though it has much to offer for the reading of biblical texts. Aichele's book is divided into four chapters, after a brief introduction on semiotics and postmodernism. In the first chapter he reflects on "message." The transmission of a message demands and produces the sign, which is ...

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