Marxist criticism of the Hebrew Bible / Roland Boer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boer, Roland, 1961- author.

Standardized Title:

Marxist criticism of the Bible

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Marxist criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 317 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury : T&T Clark, 2015.

Summary:

The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukacs, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts.

Contents:

1 Louis Althusser: The difficult birth of Israel in Genesis 23

2 Antonio Gramsci: The emergence of the 'Prince' in Exodus 47

3 Deleuze and Guattari: Nomads, scapegoats and resistance 71

4 Terry Eagleton: The class struggles in Ruth 97

5 Henri Lefebvre: The production of space in 1 Samuel 117

6 Georg Lukacs: The contradictory world of Kings 139

7 Theodor Adorno: The logic of divine justice in Isaiah 161

8 Ernst Bloch: Anti-Yahwism in Ezekiel 183

9 Antonio Negri: Job, or bending transcendence to immanence 205

10 Fredric Jameson: The contradictions of form in the Psalms 225

11 Walter Benjamin: The unknowable apocalyptic of Daniel 247.

Notes:

Previous edition published as Marxist criticism of the Bible. 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567136275

0567136272

9780567228413

056722841X

OCLC:

896822487