Redirected travel : alternative journeys and places in biblical studies / edited by Roland Boer & Edgar W. Conrad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boer, Roland, 1961-

Conrad, Edgar W., 1942-

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 382.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 382

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible as literature.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark International, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What if biblical scholars traveled to the Antipodes for an international conference instead of to Europe or North America? The essays in this volume, originally written for such a conference, explore the implications for biblical studies of such a change in direction. In fact, they travel in a host of different directions, exploring the alternative journeys and places of biblical studies, developing connections in the rhizomatic fashion (as delineated famously by Deleuze and Guattari). The vehicles used in such travel include postcolonialism, feminism, Marxism, gay theory, semiotics, political

Contents:

Contents; List of Contributors; INTRODUCTION: THE BIBLE AND CRITICAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC CULTURE AND THE FUTURE OF THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE OR: THE HYPERREAL BIBLE; O PAUL WHERE ART THOU?; SEMIOTICS, SCRIBES AND PROPHETIC BOOKS; THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL IN 'THE BOOK OF THE DIVIDED KINGDOMS', OR, WAS THERE ANY 'FALL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM'?; READING MARK BACKWARDS: ESTABLISHING AN INTERPRETIVE LENS FOR A FEMINIST-LIBERATIONIST READING OF THE GOSPEL OF MARK; READING THE SILENCE OF WOMEN IN GENESIS 34; LOST IN PLACE: SOME PERPLEXITIES OF INTERTEXTUAL ENTANGLEMENT

WHO'S/WHOSE SARAH?: JOURNEYING WITH SARAH IN A CHORUS OF VOICESGENERATIVITY AND PLACE: THE GENEALOGIES OF GENESIS 1 TO 11 AND NEGOTIATING A SENSE OF PLACE IN AUSTRALIA; SANCTUARY AND WOMB: HENRI LEFEBVRE AND THE PRODUCTION OF ANCIENT SPACE; IT'S LONELY AT THE TOP: PATRIARCHAL MODELS, HOMOPHOBIC VILIFICATION AND THE HETEROSEXUAL HOUSEHOLD IN LUTHER'S COMMENTARIES; REDIRECTING THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL: DISCERNING SIGNS OF A NEO-INDIGENOUS SOUTHERN AFRICAN BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-246) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611802912

9781281802910

1281802913

9780567215598

0567215598

OCLC:

276838400