The Control of Biblical Meaning Canon as

This provocative book pursues a series of questions associated with canons of the Bible. Aichele draws deeply on the insights of poststructuralist 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.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(1)

Semiotics and Canon

1

(3)

Two Option

4

(6)

What This Book Is, and What It Isn't

10

(5)

Part 1 THE CONTROL OF DENOTATION

A Semiotics of Canon

15

(23)

Text, Intertext, Ideology

15

(5)

Canon and Meaning

20

(4)

Scripture and Canon

24

(6)

The Two Canons

30

(5)

Codex and Commentary

35

(3)

The Technology of Text

38

(23)

Oral vs. Written Text

38

(2)

Anxiety about Writing

40

(5)

Codex and Canon

45

(5)

The Printed Text

50

(5)

The Digital Bible

55

(6)

Ideologies of Translation

61

(23)

The Problem of Translation

61

(2)

Translation and Ideology

63

(4)

What Can Be Translated?

67

(8)

What Can't Be Translated?

75

(5)

Translating Canon

80

(4)

The Imperial Bible

84

(23)

The Canon as a Classic

84

(3)

The Eternal Empire

87

(4)

The Historical Empire

91

(5)

Fragmentary Empires

96

(4)

Postmodernism and the Canon

100

(7)

Part 2 WILD CONNOTATIONS

Babble On

107

(23)

A Zigzag Reading

107

(4)

No Perfect Language

111

(6)

God's Tongue

117

(5)

Spirit and Flesh

122

(4)

The End of Language

126

(4)

The Bleeding Page

130

(21)

The Text as a Symbol

130

(4)

Representamen

134

(4)

Object

138

(5)

Interpretant

143

(3)

Reading Circumcision

146

(5)

The Humanoids

151

(22)

Invasion of the Humanoids

151

(3)

The Son of Man in the Bible

154

(5)

Jesus' Story of the Son of Man

159

(5)

The Sons and the Son

164

(4)

Ideology and the Son of Man

168

(5)

David Reconfigured

173

(21)

David in the New Testament

173

(3)

David the Ancestor

176

(4)

David the Psalm(ist)

180

(5)

David the Warrior

185

(5)

Resignifying David

190

(4)

Signifying Jesus

194

(24)

Resistance to Canonical Control

194

(6)

The Name of the Name

200

(9)

The Sign of Jonah

209

(9)

Conclusion: The Future of the Christian Canon

218

(15)

The End of the Canon

218

(5)

Postmodern Semiotics

223

(3)

Further News from Nowhere

226

(7)

Glossary

233

(4)

Bibliography

237

(10)

Index of Scripture and Related Texts

247

(10)

Index of Names

257

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