LEADER 05702nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910826727403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-39729-6 010 $a9786611397296 010 $a0-8135-4462-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813544625 035 $a(CKB)1000000000535679 035 $a(EBL)348826 035 $a(OCoLC)476163909 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258059 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11193278 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258059 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10254121 035 $a(PQKB)10688385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC348826 035 $a(OCoLC)236079244 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse20022 035 $a(DE-B1597)530373 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813544625 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL348826 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10231505 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL139729 035 $a(OCoLC)1058753708 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000535679 100 $a20070227d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTheorizing Scriptures $enew critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon /$fedited by Vincent L. Wimbush 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 225 1 $aSignifying (on) Scriptures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4203-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index. 327 $gIntroduction:$tTEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation /$rVincent L. Wimbush --$tScriptures: text and then some /$rCatherine Bell --$tSignifying revelation in Islam /$rTazim R. Kassam --$tScriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition /$rGurinder Singh Mann --$tDynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East /$rHugh R. Page Jr. --$tKnown knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations /$rR.S. Sugirtharajah --$gTalking back --$tSignifying scriptures in Confucianism /$rYan Shoucheng --$tConfessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? /$rWilliam L. Andrews --$tSignifying scriptures from an African perspective /$rOyeronke Olajubu --$tTransforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India /$rSathianathan Clarke --$tSignification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization /$rSze-kar Wan --$gTalking back --$tConjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions /$rYvonne P. Chireau --$tVisualizing scriptures /$rColleen McDannell --$tSignifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music /$rJacqueline Cogdell Djedje --$tSignifying proverbs: Menace II society /$rErin Runions --$tScriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions /$rGrey Gundaker --$tTexture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture /$rLeslie King-Hammond --$gTalking back --$tDifferences at play in the fields of the lord /$rSusan F. Harding --$tAmerican Samson: biblical reading and national origins /$rLaura E. Donaldson --$tAgainst signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil /$rLeonard Harris --$tOrality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India /$rPatrick Olivelle --$tReading places/reading scriptures /$rWesley A. Kort --$tTaniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff /$rJo Diamond --$tScriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing /$rJose Rabasa --$gTalking back --$tIn Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies /$rBurton L. Visotzky --$tPowerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project /$rElisabeth Schussler Fiorenza --$tRacial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" /$rJoseph Parker --$tWho needs the subaltern? /$rRanu Samantrai --$gTalking back. 330 $aHistorically, religious scriptures are defined as holy texts that are considered to be beyond the abilities of the layperson to interpret. Their content is most frequently analyzed by clerics who do not question the underlying political or social implications of the text, but use the writing to convey messages to their congregations about how to live a holy existence. In Western society, moreover, what counts as scripture is generally confined to the Judeo-Christian Bible, leaving the voices of minorities, as well as the holy texts of faiths from Africa and Asia, for example, unheard. In this innovative collection of essays that aims to turn the traditional bible-study definition of scriptures on its head, Vincent L. Wimbush leads an in-depth look at the social, cultural, and racial meanings invested in these texts. Contributors hail from a wide array of academic fields and geographic locations and include such noted academics as Susan Harding, Elisabeth Shüssler Fiorenza, and William L. Andrews. Purposefully transgressing disciplinary boundaries, this ambitious book opens the door to different interpretations and critical orientations, and in doing so, allows an ultimately humanist definition of scriptures to emerge. 410 0$aSignifying (on) Scriptures. 606 $aSacred books$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aSacred books$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a208/.2 701 $aWimbush$b Vincent L$01613380 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826727403321 996 $aTheorizing Scriptures$93942639 997 $aUNINA