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Article: Collected essays -- The New Literary Criticism and the New Testament edited by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and Edgar V. McKnight
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- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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ELIZABETH STRUTHERS MALBON and EDGAR V. McKNIGHT (eds.), The New Literary Criticism and the New Testament (JSNTSup 109; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press; Valley Forge, PA: Trinity International, 1994). Pp. 399. Cloth L31.50, $56; paper $20.
The fourteen essays in this volume provide a sampling of the many critical methodologies currently employed in the literary study of the NT. As the introduction by the editors explains, the essays illustrate the shift from the new literary criticism, which approaches the text as an autonomous object to be judged by intrinsic criteria (e.g., coherence, integrity), to post-new literary criticism, which revives concern for extrinsic factors (e.g., the ...