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The Bible in theory : critical and postcritical essays /
The sixteen essays assembled in this volume, four of them co-authored, chart the successive phases of a professional life lived in the interstices of Bible and "theory." Engaging such texts as the Song of Songs, 4 Maccabees, Mark, Luke-Acts, John, and Romans, and such themes as the quest f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Atlanta :
Society of Biblical Literature,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Resources for biblical study ;
no. 57. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : on the inside looking out while on the outside looking in
- Postmodernity. The "post-" age stamp : does it stick? : biblical studies and the postmodernism debate ; Further reading on postmodernity
- Textuality. Illuminating the Gospels without the benefit of color : a plea for concrete criticism ; The gospel of the look ; Are there impurities in the living water that the Johannine Jesus dispenses? : deconstruction, feminism, and the Samaritan woman ; The quest of the New Historicist Jesus / co-authored with Susan Lochrie Graham ; Further reading on poststructuralism and New Historicism
- Autobiography. True confessions and weird obsessions : autobiographical interventions in literary and biblical studies ; The divine butcher ; Further reading on autobiographical criticism
- Masculinity. Taking it like a man : masculinity in 4 Maccabees / co-authored with Janice Capel Anderson ; Gigantic God : Yahweh's body ; Further reading on masculinity studies
- Sexuality. The Song of Songs in the history of sexuality ; Unsafe sex : feminism, pornography, and the Song of Songs / co-authored with Virginia Burrus ; Sex and the single apostle ; Further reading on queer studies
- Postcoloniality. Questions of biblical ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi; or, the postcolonial and the postmodern ; "The Romans will come and destroy our holy place and our nation" : representing empire in John ; Further reading on postcolonial studies
- Posttheory. A modest manifesto for New Testament literary criticism : how to interface with a literary studies field that is postliterary, posttheoretical, and postmethodological ; After "after theory" and other apocalyptic conceits in literary and biblical studies / co-authored with Yvonne Sherwood ; Further reading on the "after theory" debate.