The Postmodern Bible Reader by David Jobling

The Postmodern Bible Reader by David Jobling

A range of powerful contemporary engagements with the Bible by literary critics, philosophers, writers and activists is brought together for the first time in this Reader.

'Some six years after the publication of The Postmodern Bible, this reader offers a complex and challenging companion volume to the earlier workDrawn from the work of critics, both well-known and less familiar, it offers a contextualisation of the Bible in the contemporary in essays which read against, through and with biblical texts themselves. A superb Introduction challenges the reader through the work of seven key writers from Lyotard to Zizek, expanding the terms of the debate culturally and intellectually, reminding us that 'the postmodern' is not static, but dynamic and shifting. It will provide an invaluable resource for teachers and students. Its tone is often polemical, rhetorical and always stimulating. It brings postmodernism alive again, and therefore also the Bible. For we cannot now read the Bible outside the claims of postmodernity. The book deserves a wide readership, especially, one hopes, among biblical scholars and their students.' David Jasper, University of Glasgow

"...this volume is certain to become an indispensable resource for biblical scholars, theologians, seminarians, and graduate students." Teaching Theology & Religion

David Jobling teaches at St Andrew's College, Canada, and is General Editor of Semeia. He is author of The Sense of Biblical Narrative and I Samuel.

Tina Pippin is Associate Professor of Religion at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She is the author of Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image (1999).

David Jobling teaches at St Andrew's College, Saskatoon, Canada, and is General Editor of Semeia. He is author of The Sense of Biblical Narrative and I Samuel.

Tina Pippin is Associate Professor of Religion at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She is the author of Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image.

Ronald Schleifer teaches at the University of Oklahoma and is co-editor of 'The Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory'. He is author of A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning.

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ISBN 13	9780631219620
ISBN 10	0631219625
Title	The Postmodern Bible Reader
Author	David Jobling
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2001-08-13
Number of pages	400
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