ABSTRACT
Through a political reading of key biblical narratives, this chapter examines the various sign systems that facilitated the survival of the Hebrew nation. As textual traditions that emphasize polyphony, biblical literature and rabbinical hermeneutics often explore the tension between two types of communication models: decodification semiotics and interpretation semiotics. In this context, these textual traditions function as an ongoing process of collective mythmaking: a network of mutually reliant voices, perspectives, and literary techniques.
