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The Wild Word : Animals in the Gospels.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Calaway, Jaeda Charlotte.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.
Summary:
The Wild Word presents new readings of the way animals are used in the Gospels to create, reinforce, and transgress social boundaries, as well as to enforce and collapse the categories of domesticity/wildness and natural/unnatural.
Contents:
Cover
THE WILD WORD
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction to Gospel Beasts
1 Eating Animals in the Gospels
2 Prosthetic Animals: Wearing and Working Animals in the Gospels
3 Jesus and the Ancient Abattoir: Sacrificing Animals in the Gospels
4 Affective Animals and Social Identity in the Gospels
5 Into Gospel Wilds: Divine, Demonic, and Animal
6 Reshaping Gospel Animality in the Filmic Imagination: Son of Man
Concluding Queer Entanglements with Gospel Beasts
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
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ISBN:
0-2280-2512-5
OCLC:
1528359161

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