Looking through a glass Bible : postdisciplinary Biblical interpretations from the Glasgow School / edited by A. K. M. Adam and Samuel Tongue.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, A. K. M. (Andrew Keith Malcolm), 1957- editor.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 125.

Biblical Interpretation Series, 0928-0731 ; Volume 125

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Postmodernism.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Contributors: Ben Morse, Hugh Pyper, Alastair Hunter, Hannah Strømmen, Jonathan C. P. Birch, Anna Fisk, Kuloba Wabyanga Robert, Samuel Tongue, A. K. M. Adam, Abigail Pelham, and the Religarts Collective (with Yvonne Sherwood).

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Abstraction on a Lament: Psalm 13 as Poured Paint / Benjamin Morse

The Buik o Jonah MacAmity: A Contribution to a Bible That May Not Be One / Hugh Pyper

The Book of Daniel: From Biblical Archive to Posthuman Prophecy? / Hannah M Strømmen

Exodus and Liturgy: A Proposal to Read Exodus as a Lection for the Sacred Year in Post-Exilic Judea / Alastair Hunter

Cracking the Canon: John Toland, ‘Lost’ Gospels, and the Challenge to Religious Hegemony / Jonathan C. P. Birch

Sisterhood in the Wilderness: Biblical Paradigms and Feminist Identity Politics in Readings of Hagar and Sarah / Anna Fisk

Athaliah of Judah (2 Kings 11): A Political Anomaly or an Ideological Victim? / Kuloba Wabyanga Robert

The Babel Complex: Taking a Turn Around the Tower and the City / Samuel Tongue

“The Strong Right Arm That Holds For Peace”: Picturing National Idolatry / A. K. M. Adam

Making and Unmaking the World in the Book of Job: Reading Job With Help from Elaine Scarry, Kurt Vonnegut, and Don LaFontaine / Abigail Pelham

Sharmanka: Art, Religion, and Identity in the Work of Eduard Bersudsky and Tatiana Jakovskaya / The Religart Group

By the Light of a Cloudy Glass: Biblical Interpretation and Disciplinary Security / A. K. M. Adam and Samuel Tongue

Index of Names

Index of Scripture

Index of Ancient Sources.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-25909-0

OCLC:

883374231

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004259096 DOI