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BL
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634721
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Summoning : : ideas of the covenant and interpretive theory /\ edited by Ellen Spolsky.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c1993.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
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xvi, 272 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0791415252
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: 9780791415252
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: 0791415260 (pbk.)
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: 9780791415269 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Papers of a conference sponsored by the Lechter Institute for Literary Research in cooperation with the Kaplan Fund for American Literature, held in the fall of 1989 at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Power and constraint / Harold Fisch -- Biblical covenants as performative language / Gerda Elata-Alster and Rachel Salmon -- Facing the other / Susan Handelman -- The difficulty of finding a moral basis for accepting the covenant / Daniel Statman -- The perpetual convenant in Jewish learning / Menachem Fisch -- The sign of the covenant / Betty Rojtman -- Redesigning redemption / Betsy Halpern-Amaru -- Placing reading / Daniel Boyarin -- Binding and unbinding / Elizabeth Freund -- American literature's declaration of In/dependence / Emily Miller Budick -- Intertextuality and reader responsibility / Sharon Deykin Baris -- "The new convenant" and the dilemma of dissensus / Sam B. Girgus.
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Religion and literature.
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Literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Covenant theology in literature.
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Covenants-- Religious aspects-- Judaism.
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Judaism-- Essence, genius, nature.
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| LC Classification
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PN49.S84 1993
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| Added Entry
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Spolsky, Ellen,1943-
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