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work_l2p2rhemb5b5ha6ephzpjtpoq4	Penny van Toorn	DIALOGIZING THE SCRIPTURES: A BAKHTINIAN READING OF THE NOVELS OF RUDY WIEBE	1995	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5590	419	74	In effect, the conservative Mennonites carried the Scriptures or more Wiebe opens Chapter One of his first novel Peace Shall Destroy Wiebe's novel Peace Shall Destroy Many the first time with the moral authority of the Scriptural text. Dueck, an "outsider" to the Wapiti church community, Thorn's mind Throughout Wiebe's narrative in Peace Shall Destroy Many Block Deacon Block maintains his power over the Mennonites of Wapiti with God. Block appropriates lhe authority the Mennonite community mediator between the Mennonite community and their sacred text. Block's voice delivers the Scriptures to the community in a definitive, As well as fending off voices that enter the Mennonite community In Peace Shall Destroy Many the Mennonite community Word out of the closed Mennonite church community to disseminate it Wiebe's novels disseminate the sacred Word wrapped manner, Wiebe ritualizes his readers' approach to the Scriptural word. Wiebe's novels may be viewed as word-bundles.	./cache/work_l2p2rhemb5b5ha6ephzpjtpoq4.pdf	./txt/work_l2p2rhemb5b5ha6ephzpjtpoq4.txt