An ecology of scriptures : experiences of dwelling behind early Jewish and Christian texts / Jolyon G.R. Pruszinski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pruszinski, Jolyon G.R., author.

Series:

Jewish and Christian Texts.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dwellings in the Bible.

Place (Philosophy) in the Bible.

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

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : T&T Clark, 2021.

Summary:

"In this volume, Jolyon G. R. Pruszinski examines the experiences of domestic and quotidian space that contributed to the extant form of many foundational early Jewish and Christian scriptures. His analytical approaches are derived from diverse sources including modern psychological science, Gaston Bachelard's critical theories of domestic space, and Henri Lefebvre's observations regarding "spatial practice." The result of this attention to textual "ecology" or "home-logic" is an innovative exploration of classic texts yielding exciting new interpretive possibilities for the Gospel of John, the undisputed Pauline letters, the Parables of Enoch, the Book of Revelation, the History of the Rechabites, and Augustine's De Trinitate. Experiences of loss, homelessness, imprisonment, and marginal dwelling lie behind these texts and contributed to their authors' re-imagination and re-establishment of home. Pruszinski proves inescapably that while the most familiar of experiences are often overlooked, they are also among the most important of formative influences on the early Jewish and Christian literary imagination."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword - James Charlesworth

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. The ecology of the fourth gospel: Bachelard's hermeneutics of home and Martyn's "Two-level drama."

Chapter 2. Space matters for scripture and ecology matters for space: critical observations from John 4.

Chapter 3. The undisputed Pauline Corpus and Gentile believers as the dwelling of God.

Chapter 4. Identification with a marginal home: waters of judgment as the oppressed in the Parables of Enoch

Chapter 5. Pit and prison, doors and dwelling: phenomenologies of the familiar in the Book of Revelation

Chapter 6. "Real" visions of the ideal home: from ascetic dwellings to the Isle of the Blessed Ones in the history of the Rechabites

Chapter 7. Augustine's Christological emphasis in De Trinitate : anaAffirmation of the human ecology.

Chapter 8. Conclusion: the core function of "ecology" in scriptural production and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780567694966

0567694968

9780567694973

0567694976

9780567694959

056769495X

OCLC:

1233023299