Redirected Travel: Alternative Journeys and Places in by Roland Boer, Edgar W. Conrad (eds.)

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What happened is dated with even more precision than in Jeremiah to 'the thirteenth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month'. This date apparently was the period of time he was in exile. There is no mention of Judaean kings at this point and no mention of his ancestry. The beginning of this book also is distinctive in that Ezekiel speaks in the first person and his name is not immediately mentioned as in Isaiah and Jeremiah. What happened he says took place, 'when I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the sky was opened and I had mK"lQ [visions] of god'.

Historical criticism, while genuinely offering a great deal, remains a hegemonic structure that assumes a panoptical position in order to govern and maintain an asymmetrical relationship to alternative means of acquiring knowledge. One of the best examples of this is Pauline studies, or rather 'institutional Pauline studies'. We shall therefore consider two kinds of problematic privileging located within Pauline studies, not to suggest an end to historical criticism, but rather to question its dominance.

The existence of hypothetical scriptural autographs, 'original texts', is thought to ground the authority of the existing textual copies. The scholarly attempt to uncover the earliest forms and functions of the texts, like belief in the autograph, seeks to restore the lost, Benjaminian aura of the scriptures. However, the struggle to defend the canon has already been lost. Both scholars and believers have forgotten Benjamin's point: that once it has been photographed, the Mona Lisa has lost its aura forever.

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