Mark and Luke in Poststructuralist Perspectives
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Jesus Begins to Write
Stephen D. Moore
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"This book is superbly well versed in the theory and practice of deconstruction and in contemporary biblical scholarship with regard to Mark and Luke-Acts. It brings those twin aspects together in an extremely and mutually enlightening manner."—John Dominic Crossan
"A major book in the new genre of the application to biblical scholarship of recent developments in literary criticism—brilliantly provocative and original, learned, forcefully and powerfully written, and persuasive in its readings."—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
"Witty at times and always sensitive to words and wordplay. . . . Without a doubt, Moore has show how the techniques of deconstruction permit a different reading of the gospels."—Choice
"This is one of the finest books on Paul published in recent years. . . . Dr. Segal offers a sensitive appraisal of the evidence which is of great interest to readers of all religious persuasions, or none."—Graham Stanton, Theology
"In this book, Moore makes special use of the thought and literary techniques of the French thinkers Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault to present a postmodernist interpretation of Mark and Luke. . . . A fascinating study."—Jack Dean Kingsbury, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible & Theology
"It is hard to imagine a lukewarm response to this book. It is a tour de force, demanding passionate response, whether that be hot or cold. . . . [It] plunges us deep into a virtuoso performance of poststructuralist reading of two Gospels, Mark and Luke. Can deconstruction 'work' with the Gospels? This book demonstrates that it can, uncannily. . . . [This is] the work of a master craftsman who has studied the house of biblical criticism so painstakingly that he finds skeletons where most did not realize there were closets."—Robert M. Fowler, Catholic Biblical Quarterly
"Stephen Moore has written an important and provocative book that should not be lightly dismissed by the biblical guild. . . . [It] deserves to be read not only by biblical scholars but by secular literary critics and theologians as well."—Jeffrey L. Staley, Journal of Biblical Literature
Publication Date: March 25, 1992
