The Bible in theory : critical and postcritical essays / by Stephen D. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Stephen D., 1954-

Series:

Resources for biblical study ; no. 57.

Society of Biblical Literature resources for biblical study ; no. 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Poststructuralism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 465 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2010]

Contents:

The "post-" age stamp : does it stick? : Biblical studies and the postmodernism debate

Illuminating the gospels without the benefit of color

The gospel of the look

Are there impurities in the living water that the Johannine Jesus dispenses?

The quest of the new historicist Jesus / with Susan Lochrie Graham

True confessions and weird obsessions

The divine butcher

Taking it like a man

Gigantic God : Yahweh's body

The Song of Songs in the history of sexuality

Unsafe sex : feminism, pornography, and the Song of Songs / with Virginia Burrus

Sex and the single apostle

Questions of biblical ambivalence and authority undr a tree outside Delhi

"The Romans will come and destroy our Holy Place and our nation"

A modest manifesto for New Testament literary criticism

After "after theory" and other apocalyptic conceits in literary and biblical studies / with Yvonne Sherwood.

Notes:

Collection of essays published elsewhere previously between 1989 and 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-454) and index.

ISBN:

9781589835061

1589835069

9781589835078

1589835077

OCLC:

631747994