Bible, borders, belonging(s)
Subtitle: engaging readings from Oceania
By: edited by Jione Havea, David J. Neville, and Elaine M. Wainwright
Series: Society of Biblical Literature. Semeia studies -- number 75; Semeia studies -- no. 75.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781589839557; 9781589839571; 9781589839564
Subjects: Bibel; Environmental conditions; Ecology; Bible; Social conditions; Christian life; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Christianity
Description: Events in Oceania - earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, shipwrecks, oil spills, movement of political and ecological refugees, resettlement of displaced people, and changing political structures - challenge the authors to reflect on the practices of biblical interpretation and to consequently reread biblical texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Engaging scriptures from Oceania  -- Jione Havea; title: "Save us! We are perishing!" :; title: reading Matthew 8:23-27 in the face of devastating floods  -- Elaine M. Wainwright; title: Calamity and the biblical God :; title: borderline or line of belonging? :; title: intratextual tension in Luke 13  -- David J. Neville; title: On the crossroads between life and death :; title: reading birth imagery in John in the earthquake-changed regions of Otautahi Christchurch  -- Kathleen P. Rushton; title: The prologue of John :; title: bridge into a new world  -- John Painter; title: Jewish readings of the Fourth Gospel :; title: beyond the pale?  -- Ruth Sheridan; title: Mapping the boundaries of belonging :; title: another look at Jacob's story  -- Merilyn Clark; title: Slipping across borders and bordering on conquest :; title: a contrapuntal reading of Numbers 13  -- Judith E. McKinlay; title: Border crossing/body whoring :; title: rereading Rahab of Jericho with native women  -- Nāsili Vaka'uta; title: Deuteronomy 30 :; title: faithfulness in the refugee camps of Moab, Babylonia, and beyond  -- Jeanette Mathews; title: Reading Rizpah across borders, cultures, belongings, to India and back  -- Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon; title: Borderless discipleship :; title: the Syrophoenician woman as a Christ-follower in Mark 7:24-30  -- Jeffrey W. Aernie; title: Bare feet welcome :; title: Redeemer Xs Moses @ Enaim  -- Jione Havea; title: The sign of Jonah :; title: reading Jonah on the boundaries and from the boundaries  -- Gregory C. Jenks; title: Gospel maps :; title: intersections of life  -- Michele A. Connolly; title: Breaking Bible boundaries  -- David M. Gunn; title: Bordering on redemption -- Mark G. Brett.