Readings, readers and authors: an orientation

Are the readings of Luke being proposed in this volume evidence of readers finding in the text what they want? Different readings of the same text can be related to different manifestations of "the reader". Yet a responsible reading of the text implies taking the text as a speech-act funct...

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Published in:Neotestamentica 1988-01, Vol.22 (2), p.189-203
Main Author: Combrink, H J B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bible
Christianity
Inspiration
Literary rhetoric
Narratives
New Testament
Parables
Pragmatics
Reader response criticism
Rhetoric
Rhetorical criticism
Sacred texts
Speech-acts
Textual criticism
Theology
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Summary:Are the readings of Luke being proposed in this volume evidence of readers finding in the text what they want? Different readings of the same text can be related to different manifestations of "the reader". Yet a responsible reading of the text implies taking the text as a speech-act functioning in a communicative context. The role of the author and the context therefore becomes important again. The concept of foolproof composition is relevant too ās it implies the exclusion of the possibility of a counterreading of the text. Tlie phenomenon of the inspiration of a sacred text also functions as a constraint.
ISSN:0254-8356
0254-8356