From Plato to Adam: the biblical exegesis of Walter Benjamin
Boer, Roland
10.4225/03/590154a99ca71
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/From_Plato_to_Adam_the_biblical_exegesis_of_Walter_Benjamin/4923335
Walter Benjamin finds the Bible a slippery text. For all his interest over a number of writings, especially The Task of the Translator, On Language as Such and the Language of Man and The Origin of German Tragic Drama, and for all the efforts to develop a theory of history deeply indebted to the Bible, the biblical text trips him up, refusing to provide what he wishes to find. This article traces those difficulties.
Copyright 2007 Roland Boer. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
2017-04-27 01:34:21
1959.1/788458
monash:110420
1832-3391
journal article
Eschaton
Walter Benjamin
Fall
10.2104/bc070006
History