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A Critical Binarism: Source Criticism and Deconstructive Criticism

Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

When classifying the array of interpretive methods currently available, biblical critics regularly distinguish between historical-critical methods, on the one hand, and literary critical methods, on the other. Frequently, methods on one side of the divide are said to be antagonistic to certain methods on the other. This article examines two such presumed antagonistic methods, source criticism and deconstructive criticism, and argues that they are not, in fact, antagonistic, but similar: both are postmodern movements, and both share an interpretive methodology (insofar as it is correct to speak of a deconstructive methodology). This argument is illustrated with a source-critical and a deconstructive reading of Exodus 14.

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vol. 26, No. 4, 3-28 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/030908920202600401


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