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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464991403321

Autore

Koosed Jennifer L

Titolo

Bible and Posthumanism [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, : SBL Press, 2014

ISBN

1-58983-752-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Semeia Studies ; ; v.74

Disciplina

220.6

Soggetti

Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

Humanism

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""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 Girl""""Part 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""