The Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

MARK CAMERON LOVE, The Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader (JSOTSup 296; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). Pp. 265. 49, $82.

Love divides his work into three sections. The "(Ante)Thesis" consists of three chapters in which he defines his approach, the literary characteristics of Zechariah 1-8, and his methodological presuppositions. Drawing from reader-response criticism and post-- modern theory, he makes his goal "to examine the function of incoherence in Zechariah" (p. 15), which makes the text evasive and frustrates the reader. The "Thesis" includes two ...

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