Subverting scriptures
Subtitle: critical reflections on the use of the Bible
By: edited by Beth Hawkins Benedix.
Contributors: Benedix, Beth Hawkins.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Bible -- Use; Bible -- Influence; Bible -- In literature; Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Religion and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Setting the stage : what is subversive scripture?; title: Walking the (Damascus Road) line : the irony of appropriation in Johnny Cash's Man in white / Jay Twomey; title: Refuse, realism, and retelling : literal and literary takes on Noah's ark between speech and silence / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg; title: Face to face : biblical traces in the philosophy of Elie Wiesel / John K. Roth; title: Mother tongue, holy tongue : on translating and not translating / John Felstiner; title: Revolution, rebellion, revision, resistance / Leslie James; title: Flight, rapture, and transcendence : imagination and the politics of nostalgia in the African American diaspora / Anna Hartnell; title: Exodus and redemption in Toni Morrison's Paradise : a magical encounter with the Bible / Anna Hartwell; title: Literary hijackings : between the book of Isaiah and the Handmaid's tale / Qiuyi Tan; title: In the beginningbig bang : the issue of violence in Ernesto Cardenal's Cosmic canticle / Ellin Sterne Jimmerson; title: Violence, power, prophecy / Beth Hawkins Benedix; title: Babel revisited : the violent visions of Kafka and Pinter / Beth Hawkins Benedix; title: Masters, slaves, and the implacable deity of the wilderness in Simone Zelitch's Moses in Sinai / Ranen Omer-Sherman; title: The modern day followers of the Lamb : the rhetoric of suffering and the politics of identity in the Left behind series / W. David Hall; title: Subversion as return : Scripture, dissent, and renewal in contemporary Judaism / Shaul Magid.