1st Edition
Power and Responsibility in Biblical Interpretation Reading the Book of Job with Edward Said
By Alissa Jones Nelson
Copyright 2012
272 Pages
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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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'Power and Responsibility in Biblical Interpretation' addresses the interpretive challenges now facing much biblical interpretation. Incorporating the methodologies of poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and liberation theology, the study presents a possible methodology which integrates scholarly and vernacular hermeneutics. The approach is based on the theories of Edward Said, adapting his... Read more
Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to Edward W. Said: A Review of Said’s Concepts of Subjectivity, Power, Intellectual Responsibility, and the Secular; Chapter 2 Reading Contrapuntally: Adapting Said’s Concept of Contrapuntal Reading to the Field of Biblical Hermeneutics; Chapter 3 Attempting to Bridge the Gap: A Review of Contemporary Efforts to Integrate Academic and Vernacular Voices in Biblical Hermeneutics; Part 2 Interlude: Why Job?; Chapter 4 A Joban Fugue: Addressing the Issue of Suffering in the Book of Job with Gerhard Von Rad and Gustavo Gutiérrez; Chapter 5 Psychology, Physiology, Society, and Spirituality: Interpreting Job with Insight from Psychological and HIV-Positive Perspectives; Chapter 6 The Integration of Chaos and Order: Exploring Asian Interpretations of the Book of Job; conclusion; Conclusion;
Biography
Alissa Jones Nelson completed her doctorate at the University of St Andrews in 2009. Her recent publications focus on the intersections of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and contemporary socio-political issues such as globalization, pedagogy and sexuality as well as the use of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in popular culture.
