The Bible and posthumanism
By: edited by Jennifer L. Koosed
Series: Society of Biblical Literature. Semeia studies -- number 74
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781589839397; 9781589837515; 9781589837522
Subjects: Bible; Posthumanismus; Anthropologie; Criticism, interpretation; Humanism; Bibel; Weltbild
Description: What does it mean to be human? Pointing beyond human-centric ideologies, the essays in this collection explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with the critical theories of posthumanism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Humanity at its limits  -- Jennifer L. Koosed; title: Beastly questions and biblical blame  -- Hannah M. Strømmen; title: Hauntology meets posthumanism :; title: some payoffs for biblical studies  -- Denise Kimber Buell; title: The lion king :; title: Yahweh as sovereign beast in Israel's imaginary  -- Hugh Pyper; title: Wittgenstein's lion and Balaam's ass :; title: talking with others in Numbers 22-25  -- Ken Stone; title: Sick with love :; title: the musical symptoms of a shtetl-bound Shulammite in Waszinski's Dybbuk  -- Heidi Epstein; title: Voluptuous, tortured, and unmanned :; title: Ezekiel with Daniel Paul Schreber  -- Rhiannon Graybill; title: The prosthetic friend, or Posthumanity in Lars and the real girl  -- George Aichele; title: Tripartite anthropologies and the limits of the human  -- Benjamin H. Dunning; title: Gregory of Nyssa and Jacques Derrida on the human-animal distinction in the Song of songs  -- Eric Daryl Meyer; title: What would Jesus eat? :; title: ethical vegetarianism in nascent Christianity  -- Robert Paul Seesengood; title: Cutting up life :; title: sacrifice as a device for clarifying--and tormenting--fundamental distinctions between human, animal, and divine  -- Yvonne Sherwood; title: Ruminations on Revelation's ruminant, quadrupedal Christ; or the even-toed ungulate that therefore I am -- Stephen D. Moore.