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The Bible and posthumanism /
What does it mean to be human? Pointing beyond human-centric ideologies, the essays in this collection explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with the critical theories of posthumanism.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Atlanta :
Society of Biblical Literature,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Semeia studies ;
no. 74. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Part 1: Beginnings
- Humanity at Its Limits
- Beastly Questions and Biblical Blame
- Hauntology Meets Posthumanism: Some Payoffs for Biblical Studies
- Part 2: Lions
- The Lion King: Yahweh as Sovereign Beast in Israel�s Imaginary
- Wittgenstein�s Lion and Balaam�s Ass: Talking with Others in Numbers 22�25
- Part 3: Bodies in Crisis
- Sick with Love: The Musical Symptoms of a Shtetl-Bound Shulammite in Waszinski�s Dybbuk
- Voluptuous, Tortured, and Unmanned: Ezekiel with Daniel Paul Schreber
- The Prosthetic Friend, or Posthumanity in Lars and the Real GirlPart 4: Fathers
- Tripartite Anthropologies and the Limits of the Human in Valentinian Christian Creation Myths
- Gregory of Nyssa and Jacques Derrida on the Human-Animal Distinction in the Song of Songs
- Part 5: Sacrifice
- What Would Jesus Eat? Ethical Vegetarianism in Nascent Christianity
- Cutting up Life: Sacrifice as a Device for Clarifying�and Tormenting�Fundamental Distinctions between Human, Animal, and Divine
- Part 6: Endings
- Ruminations on Revelation�s Ruminant, Quadrupedal Christ or, the Even-Toed Ungulate That Therefore I Am
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Index of Authors