Subverting Scriptures [electronic resource] : Critical Reflections on the Use of the Bible /
Benedix, B.editor.
This collection seeks to fill the interdisciplinary space that addresses when, why, and how writers strategically reference the Bible for subversive or re-evaluative purposes. It explores the specific biblical pieces used this subversion, and why they are used, with reference to many contemporary sources.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the stage : what is subversive scripture? -- A funny things happened on the road to Damascus : piety and subversion in Johnny Cash's Man in white / Jay Twomey -- Refuse, realism, retelling : literal and literary reconstructions of Noah's ark / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg --  Between speech and silence -- Face to face : biblical traces in the philosophy of Elie Wiesel / John K. Roth  -- Mother tongue, holy tongue : on translating and not translating Paul Celan / John Felstiner -- Revolution, rebellion, liberation -- Textual hijacks : between the book of Isaiah and the Handmaid's tale / Qiuyi Tan -- Exodus and redemption in Toni Morrison's Paradise ; a magical encounter with the Bible / Anna Hartnell -- "In the beginning--big bang" : violence in Ernesto Cardenal's Cosmic canticle / Ellin Sterne Jimmerson -- Exposing the will to power -- Babel revisited : Kafka and Pinter critique the convenant / Beth Hawkins Benedix -- Masters, slaves, and the implacable deity of the wilderness in Simone Zelitch's Moses in Sinai / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- The modern day followers of the Lamb : the rhetoric of suffering and the politics of identity in the Left behind series / W. David Hall -- Subversion as return : Scripture, dissent, and renewal, and the future of Judaism / Shaul Magid.
This collection seeks to fill the interdisciplinary space that addresses when, why, and how writers strategically reference the Bible for subversive or re-evaluative purposes. It explores the specific biblical pieces used this subversion, and why they are used, with reference to many contemporary sources.
Bible
Bible
Bible
Bible
Theology.
Bible—Theology.
Judaism.
Christian Theology.
Biblical Studies.
Judaism.