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1. God, Gender and the Bible

   By Deborah Sawyer

   Edited by David Gunn, Gary. A Philips

   Series: Biblical Limits

   Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (...

   Published July 17th 2002 by Routledge
2. Racializing Jesus

   Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship

   By Shawn Kelley

   Series: Biblical Limits

   Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category of race. He then traces the processes through which racially-grounded thinking has influenced modern biblical...

   Published May 1st 2002 by Routledge
3. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

   The Bible and Popular Culture

   By Roland Boer

   Series: Biblical Limits

   Knockin' On Heaven's Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture.Specific biblical texts are examined in the light of cultural criticism and areas of popular culture including pornography, heavy...

   Published August 11th 1999 by Routledge
4. The Book of Hiding

   Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther

   By Timothy K. Beal

   Series: Biblical Limits

   The Book of Hiding offers a fluent and erudite analysis of the parallels between the Bible and contemporary discussions of gender, ethnicity and social ambiguity. Beal focuses particularly on the traditionally marginalised book of Esther, in order to examine closely the categories of self and other...

   Published October 29th 1997 by Routledge
5. Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies

   Identity and The Book

   Edited by Timothy K. Beal, David Gunn

   Series: Biblical Limits

   The Bible is often said to be one of the foundation texts of Western culture. The present volume shows that it goes far beyond being a religious text. The essays explore how religious, political and cultural identities, including ethnicity and gender, are embodied in biblical discourse. Following...

   Published November 27th 1996 by Routledge
6. Jesus Framed

   By George Aichele

   Series: Biblical Limits

   Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblical texts.Jesus Framed is a collection of essays on reading the gospel of Mark. It uses literary...

   Published May 8th 1996 by Routledge