On the Uses of Biblical Poetics: Protestant Hermeneutics and American Jewish Self-Fashioning

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.2979/ptx.2023.a899253
Julian Levinson
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Abstract: This article shows how new trends in Protestant biblical hermeneutics in nineteenth-century America helped to raise the cultural status of modern-day Jews, while inspiring bold new directions in American Jewish literary culture. The interpretive framework under discussion emerged in the work of Bishop Robert Lowth and Johann Gottfried Herder, whose studies of biblical poetry became highly influential in the United States when they were both published at the height of the Second Great Awakening. By reconceptualizing biblical poetry (especially in the works of the biblical prophets) as sublime art, their approach created the possibility for valorizing the biblical tradition for its aesthetic power alongside its religious teachings. Since Jews were commonly seen as continuous with biblical Israel, this approach meant that Jews could be seen as heirs to a glorious literary tradition, a point that American Jewish poets, such as Emma Lazarus, emphasized when they launched their own poetic experiments modeled on the biblical prophets.
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《圣经》诗学的运用:新教诠释学与美国犹太人的自我塑造
摘要:本文展示了19世纪美国新教圣经解释学的新趋势如何帮助提高现代犹太人的文化地位,同时激发了美国犹太文学文化大胆的新方向。所讨论的解释框架出现在主教罗伯特·洛斯和约翰·戈特弗里德·赫尔德的著作中,他们对圣经诗歌的研究在第二次大觉醒的高峰时期出版,在美国产生了很大的影响。通过将《圣经》诗歌(尤其是《圣经》先知的作品)重新定义为崇高的艺术,他们的方法为《圣经》传统的美学力量和宗教教义创造了价值。由于犹太人通常被视为圣经中的以色列的延续,这种方法意味着犹太人可以被视为光荣文学传统的继承人,这一点是美国犹太诗人,如艾玛·拉撒路(Emma Lazarus),在他们以圣经先知为蓝本开展自己的诗歌实验时所强调的。
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期刊介绍: For sixteen years, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History has brought to the study of Jewish literature, in its many guises and periods, new methods of study and a new wholeness of approach. A unique exchange has taken place between Israeli and American scholars, as more work from Israelis has appeared in the journal. Prooftexts" thematic issues have made important contributions to the field.
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