Looking through a glass Bible
Subtitle: postdisciplinary biblical interpretations from the Glasgow School
By: edited by A.K.M. Adam and Samuel Tongue
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- volume 125; Biblical interpretation series -- v. 125.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789004259072; 9789004259096
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Postmodernism; Christianity
Description: Some biblical interpreters' imaginations extend only as far as outlandish source theories or esoteric hypothetical audiences. The interpretive energies let loose in Glasgow over the past decade or so, however, have produced a cadre of interpreters who defy the disciplinary mandates of biblical criticisms in favour of reading the Bible with imaginations both careful and carefree. Infused with literary, political, art-critical, cinematic, liturgical and other interests, these essays display interpretive verve freed from the anxiety of disciplines - with closely observed insights, critical engagement with biblical texts, and vivid inspiration from the cultural world within which they are set. Here there is no "gap" between world and text, but the intimate congeniality of close, dear, comfortable interpretive friends.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Abstraction on a lament : Psalm 13 as poured paint / Benjamin Morse; title: The Buik o Jonah MacAmity : a contribution to a Bible that may not be one / Hugh Pyper; title: The book of Daniel : from biblical archive to posthuman prophecy? / Hannah M. Strømmen; title: Exodus and liturgy : a proposal to read Exodus as a lection for the sacred year in post-exilic Judea / Alastair Hunter; title: Cracking the canon : John Toland, 'lost' gospels, and the challenge to religious hegemony / Jonathan C.P. Birch; title: Sisterhood in the wilderness : biblical paradigms and feminist identity politics in readings of Hagar and Sarah / Anna Fisk; title: Athaliah of Judah (2 Kings 11) : a political anomaly or an ideological victim? / Wabayanga Robert Kuloba; title: The Babel complex : taking a turn around the tower and the city / Samuel Tongue; title: "The strong right arm that holds for peace" : picturing national idolatry / A.K.M. Adam; title: Making and unmaking the world in the book of Job : reading Job with help from Elaine Scarry, Kurt Vonnegut, and Don LaFontaine / Abigail Pelham; title: Sharmanka : art, religion, and identity in the work of Eduard Bersudsky and Tatiana Jakovskaya / The Religart Group; title: By the light of a cloudy glass : biblical interpretation and disciplinary security / A.K.M. Adam and Samuel Tongue.