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On the Way to the Postmodern: Volume I and Volume II by David J. A. Clines present a series of discourses, spanning three decades, from an increasingly postmodern perspective. Rather than using only methods of deconstruction, he combines traditional methods with postmodern ideas of analysis, resulting in a substantial reading of the Hebrew Bible.

Clines’s selected sequence of articles and papers—ten of them not previously published—displays a golden thread of a scholar’s journey in biblical interpretation. Some of the papers, like 'The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered', are far from postmodern in their outlook, and sit in intriguing juxtaposition with others such as “The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies.”

Volume I includes essays organized in three sections: Method, Literature, and History. Essays in this first volume include “Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International Perspective,” “What Has (and Has Not) Happened at SBL International Meetings, “The Force of the Text: A Response to Tamara C. Eskenazi,” and In Quest of the Historical Mordecai This volume is a reprint of the original 1998 edition.

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