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Bible and Posthumanism.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koosed, Jennifer L.
- Series:
- Semeia Studies
- Semeia Studies ; v.74
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Humanism.
- Local Subjects:
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Humanism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : SBL Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What does it mean, and what should it mean to be human? In this collection of essays, scholars place the philosophies and theories of animal studies and posthumanism into conversation with biblical studies. Authors cross and disrupt boundaries and categories through close readings of stories where the human body is invaded, possessed, or driven mad. Articles explore the ethics of the human use of animals and the biblical contributions to the question. Other essays use the image of lions--animals that appear not only in the wild, but also in the Bible, ancient Near Eastern texts, and philosophy--to illustrate the potential these theories present for students of the Bible. Contributors George Aichele, Denise Kimber Buell, Benjamin H. Dunning, Heidi Epstein, Rhiannon Graybill, Jennifer L. Koosed, Eric Daryl Meyer, Stephen D. Moore, Hugh Pyper, Robert Paul Seesengood, Yvonne Sherwood, Ken Stone, and Hannah M. Strømmen present an open invitation for further work in the field of posthumanism. Features: Coverage of texts that explore the boundaries between animal, human, and divinity Discussion of the term posthumanism and how it applies to biblical studies Essays engage Derrida, Foucault, Wolfe, Lacan, Zizek, Singer, Haraway, and others
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Part 1: Beginnings ""; ""Humanity at Its Limits""; ""Beastly Questions and Biblical Blame""; ""Hauntology Meets Posthumanism: Some Payoffs for Biblical Studies""; ""Part 2: Lions ""; ""The Lion King: Yahweh as Sovereign Beast in Israel�s Imaginary ""; ""Wittgenstein�s Lion and Balaam�s Ass: Talking with Others in Numbers 22�25""; ""Part 3: Bodies in Crisis ""; ""Sick with Love: The Musical Symptoms of a Shtetl-Bound Shulammite in Waszinski�s Dybbuk""; ""Voluptuous, Tortured, and Unmanned: Ezekiel with Daniel Paul Schreber""
- ""The Prosthetic Friend, or Posthumanity in Lars and the Real Girl""""Part 4: Fathers ""; ""Tripartite Anthropologies and the Limits of the Human in Valentinian Christian Creation Myths""; ""Gregory of Nyssa and Jacques Derrida on the Human-Animal Distinction in the Song of Songs""; ""Part 5: Sacrifice ""; ""What Would Jesus Eat? Ethical Vegetarianism in Nascent Christianity""; ""Cutting up Life: Sacrifice as a Device for Clarifying�and Tormenting�Fundamental Distinctions between Human, Animal, and Divine""; ""Part 6: Endings ""
- ""Ruminations on Revelation�s Ruminant, Quadrupedal Christ or, the Even-Toed Ungulate That Therefore I Am""; ""Conclusion""; ""Contributors""; ""Index of Ancient Sources""; ""Index of Authors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58983-752-5
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