Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: Second Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780567136275
Subjects: Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., o. t.; Marxist criticism
Description: The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukacs, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts.