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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807404703321

Titolo

Reading Bibles, writing bodies : identity and the Book / / edited by Timothy K. Beal and David M. Gunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-79979-9

1-280-33534-3

0-203-43336-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Biblical limits

Altri autori (Persone)

BealTimothy K <1963-> (Timothy Kandler)

GunnD. M (David M.)

Disciplina

221.6

Soggetti

Human body - Biblical teaching

Bible as literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-276) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; OPENING: Cracking the Binding; SHIFTING THE BLAME: God in the Garden; THE PROBLEM OF THE BODY FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK; THE HEBREW GOD AND HIS FEMALE COMPLEMENTS; OEDIPUS WRECKS: Moses and God's Rod; WOMAN WISDOM AND THE STRANGE WOMAN: Where is Power to be Found?; WOMAN AND THE DISCOURSE OF PATRIARCHAL WISDOM; IMAGINATION, METHOD, AND MURDER: Un/Framing the Face of Post-Exilic Israel; THE PROBLEM WITH PAGANS; ASSUMING THE BODY OF THE HEIR APPARENT: David's Lament

UTOPIA AND PORNOGRAPHY IN EZEKIEL: Violence, Hope, and the Shattered Male Subject~AN IMAGINARY AND DESIRABLE CONVERSE~: Moses and Monotheism as Family Romance; TRANSFERENCE AND TACT IN BIBLICAL STUDIES; MARGINS OF LAMENTATION, Or, The Unbearable Whiteness of Reading; A POSTSCRIPT TO THE BOOK: Authenticating the Pseudepigrapha; WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?: A Question of Text and Canon; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects; Index of Ancient Sources;

Sommario/riassunto

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.