1st Edition
Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies Identity and The Book
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 the authors, we read the Bible with new eyes: as a critic of gender, ideology, politics and culture.... Read more
Notes on contributors Preface Opening: Cracking the Binding Timothy K Beal Part One: Divine Bodies Shifting the Blame: God in the Garden Danna Nolan Fewell and David M Gunn, The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, The Hebrew God and His Female Complements Athalya Brenner, Oedipus Wrecks: Moses and God's Rod Ilona N Rashkow, Woman Wisdom and the Strange Woman: Where is Power to be Found? Claudia V Camp Part Two: Human Bodies: Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom Carol A Newsom, Imagination, Method and Murder: Un/Framing the Face of Post-Exilic Israel Danna Nolan Fewell, The Problem with Pagans Daniel L Hawk, Assuming the Body of the Heir Apparent: David's Lament Mark K George, Utopia and Pornography in Ezekiel: Violence, Hope and the Shattered Male Subject Jan William Tarlin, An Imaginary and Desirable Converse: Moses and Monotheism as Family Romance Daniel Boyarin Part Three: Textual Bodies Transference and Tact in Biblical Studies David Jobling, Margins of Lamentation, of The Unbearable Whiteness of Reading Tod Linafelt, A Postscript to The Book: Authenticating the Pseudepigrapha Kyle Keefer, What Does the Bible Say? A Question of Text and Canon David Gunn Bibliography Index
Biography
Timothy K. Beal, David Gunn
