This provocative book pursues a series of questions associated with
canon(s) of the Bible. How does the canon influence the meaning of
the texts of which it is composed? Could texts be "liberated" from
the canon, and what would this liberation do to them or to the
canon? What does the biblical canon signify about its constituent
texts? What does canonical status imply about texts that are
included in the Bible, as well as texts that are excluded from it?
How does a canon a cultural and ideological product influence or
create ideology and culture? In The Control of Biblical Meaning,
George Aichele draws deeply on the insights of postructuralist
literary theory as he pursues these questions. He also engages in
close readings of specific biblical and nonbiblical texts to
demonstrate ways that canon controls the meanings of its texts.
With dazzling skill, Aichele interrogates the form and function of
canon as a mechanism that both reveals and conceals texts from its
readers. George Aichele teaches at Adrian College in Adrian,
Michigan. He is the author of Sign, Text, Scripture: Semiotics and
the Bible and Jesus Framed and is a contributor to The Postmodern
Bible. For: Advanced undergraduates; graduate students; biblical
scholars; course text>
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