Yvonne Sherwood

Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood craft a wide-ranging account of the history of biblical scholarship and compelling reasons for a metacritical reflection on the discipline through an authentic engagement with poststructuralism. This is a text that's witty and erudite but not short and to the point. Moore and Sherwood ping-pong to a variety of issues in biblical scholarship, and their reliance on a comparison with literary studies really assumes too much of the reader's academic background to make this a helpful text for a layperson.… (altro)

You don't expect a book on biblical hermeneutics to make you laugh out loud, but this account by two of its exponents of how literary Theory ' was subsumed under the historical methodological imperative to its detriment when it was introduced into biblical studies is both very well argued and immensely witty. It is also pleasingly short!

The way they suggest to get out of this impasse is both refreshing and surprising , but as they don't 'show their hand 'until very late in the book I will not spoil the fun...… (altro)