Local Incoherence, Global Coherence?: Allusion and the Readability of Ancient Israelite Literature
Does a lack of coherence always render a text “unreadable” or “unintelligible”? In this essay, I explore the relationships between three of De Beaugrande and Dressler’s standards of textuality: cohesion, coherence, and intertextuality (considered more narrowly here in the form of allusion). I consid...
| Published in: | Old Testament essays |
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| Subtitles: | PART I: General |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Old Testament essays
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Literature
/ Israel (Motif)
/ Allusion
/ Coherence
/ Cohesion
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HA Bible HD Early Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | Does a lack of coherence always render a text “unreadable” or “unintelligible”? In this essay, I explore the relationships between three of De Beaugrande and Dressler’s standards of textuality: cohesion, coherence, and intertextuality (considered more narrowly here in the form of allusion). I consider examples of textual allusion that readers have considered surprising, incongruous, or incoherent. I conclude that in some cases, there is reason to believe ancient Israelite writers employed allusion in such a way as to create incongruity and incoherence at local text-segment levels while creating a coherent argument at larger text-segment levels. In these cases, at least, the text is still “readable.” |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17159/2312–3621/2021/v34n1a9 |