Subverting scriptures: critical reflections on the use of the Bible
edited by Beth Hawkins Benedix
Subverting scriptures: critical reflections on the use of the Bible
Author
edited by Beth Hawkins BenedixPublisher
Palgrave MacmillanEdition 1
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Title and Author
Subverting scriptures: critical reflections on the use of the Bible / edited by Beth Hawkins BenedixPublication Details
نیویورک : Palgrave Macmillan، 2009مPhysical Description
viii, 245 p.; 22 cm.Subject
Bible UseBible Influence
Bible In literature
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
Religion and culture
Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Setting the stage : what is subversive scripture? -- A funny things happened on the road to Damascus : piety and subversion in Johnny Cash's Man in white / Jay Twomey -- Refuse, realism, retelling : literal and literary reconstructions of Noah's ark / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg -- Between speech and silence -- Face to face : biblical traces in the philosophy of Elie Wiesel / John K. Roth -- Mother tongue, holy tongue : on translating and not translating Paul Celan / John Felstiner -- Revolution, rebellion, liberation -- Textual hijacks : between the book of Isaiah and the Handmaid's tale / Qiuyi Tan -- Exodus and redemption in Toni Morrison's Paradise ; a magical encounter with the Bible / Anna Hartnell -- "In the beginning--big bang" : violence in Ernesto Cardenal's Cosmic canticle / Ellin Sterne Jimmerson -- Exposing the will to power -- Babel revisited : Kafka and Pinter critique the convenant / Beth Hawkins Benedix -- Masters, slaves, and the implacable deity of the wilderness in Simone Zelitch's Moses in Sinai / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- The modern day followers of the Lamb : the rhetoric of suffering and the politics of identity in the Left behind series / W. David Hall -- Subversion as return : Scripture, dissent, and renewal, and the future of Judaism / Shaul Magid