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H E R M E N E U T IC S refers to the art and science of interpretation, which unfolds meanings of texts, images, and symbols within successive historical scenes. Shakespearean drama offers both objects for hermeneutic attention and examples of exegetical engagement with several legacies, including classical, Biblical, medieval, and modern forms of meaning-making.

English Language Notes cluster on "The Religous Turn" with position papers by Philip Lorenz, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Ken Jackson, and Graham Hammill
2006
uncorrected proofs in pdf

Lacan and the Ten Commandments: The Subject of Religion
Ken Reinhard and Julia Lupton
Diacritics | Summer 2003 | 33.2:71-97 (pdf file)

Ken Reinhard featured on History Channel documentary on the Ten Commandments

Journal of Textual Reasoning: Special Issue on The Neighbor
includes essay by Ken Reinhard
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/tr/volume4/index.html

The Religious Turn as a Turn to Theory in Shakespeare Studies
Position paper, forthcoming English Language Notes, special issue on Literary History and the Religious Turn. (Word Doc)

Hammill, Graham and Julia Reinhard Lupton, conveners
Sovereigns, Citizens, Saints
Seminar for Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, Bermuda, Spring 2005

Citizen Paul
Article by Julia Reinhard Lupton,
copyright The European Legacy
(download pdf)

Othello Circumcised
Article by Julia Reinhard Lupton
copyright Representations
(download pdf)

Creature Caliban
Article by Julia Reinhard Lupton
Copyright Shakespeare Quarterly
(download pdf)

Rights and Commandments
Article by Julia Reinhard Lupton
copyright Modern Literature Quarterly
(pdf)

"Wittenberg and Melancholic Allegory: The Reformation and Its Discontents in Hamlet."
Article by Jennifer Rust. Copyright Fordham University Press, 2003.
(pdf file)

“Jewish Studies and the Secular University.”
Kenneth Reinhard and Julia Reinhard Lupton
The Journal of Religious and Cultural Theory. Winter, 1999.
http://www.jcrt.org/archives/01.1/home.html

Religion Between Culture and Philosophy.
Edited by Kenneth Reinhard and Julia Reinhard Lupton
Special Double Issue of Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies.
Winter, 1999.
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v3i12/con312.htm

Archaeology of the Odyssey
teaching tool /JRL
(download MS Word doc)

Comparative Table of Sources, Measure for Measure
teaching tool/ JRL
(download MS Word doc)