Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies

Identity and The Book
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-12665-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: 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 the authors, we read the Bible with new eyes: as a critic of gender, ideology, politics and culture. We ask ourselves new questions: about God's body, about women's role, about racial prejudices and about the politics of the written word.
Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies crosses boundaries. It questions our most fundamental assumptions about the Bible. It shows how biblical studies can benefit from the mainstream of Western intellectual discourse, throwing up entirely new questions and offering surprising answers. Accessible, engaging and moving easily between theory and the reading of specific texts, this volume is an exciting contribution to contemporary biblical and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beal, Timothy K

Gunn, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy K. Beal, David Gunn