The labour of reading : desire, alienation, and biblical interpretation / edited by Fiona C. Black, Roland Boer, Erin Runions.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culley, Robert C.

Black, Fiona C.

Boer, Roland, 1961-

Runions, Erin.

Series:

Semeia studies

The Society of Biblical Literature Semeia studies ; no. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Labor of reading

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Ga. : Society of Biblical Literature, [1999]

Summary:

These 18 essays in honor of R.C. Culley (religious studies, McGill U.) broach new ways of reading the Hebrew and Greek Bibles including a comparative literary study of Icelandic and Israelite beginnings, a post-Auschwitz interpretation of Matthew's Gospel, and feminist exegesis. Includes stereoscopic illustrations of Palestine.

Contents:

Part 1 Pleasurable Labour/Laborious Pleasure

Seraphim and Poetic Process / Francis Landy 15

What is My Beloved? On Erotic Reading and the Song of Songs / Fiona C. Black 35

To Love the Lord: An Intertextual Reading of John 20 / Adele Reinhartz 56

In the Eye of the Beholder: Wishing, Dreaming, and Double Entendre in the Song of Songs / J. Cheryl Exum 71

Sing Us One of the Songs of Zion: Poetry and Theology in the Hebrew Bible / Robert B. Robinson 87

Imagining Arrival: Rhetoric, Reader, and Word of God in Deuteronomy 1-3 / Susan Slater 107

Yearning for Jerusalem: Reading Myth on the Web / David M. Gunn 123

Reading the Land: Holy Land as Text of Witness / Burke O. Long 141

Part 2 Writers, Power and the Alienation of Labour

David is a Thing / Roland Boer 163

A Bettered Woman: Elisha and the Shunammite in the Deuteronomic Work / David Jobling 177

Reading Story in Judges 1 / Susan Niditch 193

Icelandic and Israelite Beginnings: A Comparative Probe / Norman K. Gottwald 209

On Reading the Story of the Man of God from Judah in 1 Kings 13 / John Van Seters 225

The Labour of Sharing / John Dominic Crossan 235

The Killing Fields of Matthew's Gospel / Gary A. Phillips 249

Labouring with Abusive Biblical Texts: Tracing Trajectories of Misogyny / Pamela J. Milne 267

Playing it Again: Utopia, Contradiction, Hybrid Space and the Bright Future in Micah / Erin Runions 285

In Job's Face/Facing Job / Edward Greenstein 301.

Notes:

"The essays in this volume are presented in honour of Robert C. Culley at the time of his retirement."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0884140113

OCLC:

42295964