Subverting scriptures: critical reflections on the use of the Bible
Introduction: Setting the stage : what is subversive scripture? -- Walking the (Damascus Road) line : the irony of appropriation in Johnny Cash's Man in white / Jay Twomey -- Refuse, realism, and retelling : literal and literary takes on Noah's ark between speech and silence / Lesleigh Cus...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, Ny
Palgrave Macmillan
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible
/ Subversion
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Bible Influence B Religion and culture B Bible Use B Bible In literature B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Setting the stage : what is subversive scripture? -- Walking the (Damascus Road) line : the irony of appropriation in Johnny Cash's Man in white / Jay Twomey -- Refuse, realism, and retelling : literal and literary takes on Noah's ark between speech and silence / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg -- Face to face : biblical traces in the philosophy of Elie Wiesel / John K. Roth -- Mother tongue, holy tongue : on translating and not translating / John Felstiner -- Revolution, rebellion, revision, resistance / Leslie James -- Flight, rapture, and transcendence : imagination and the politics of nostalgia in the African American diaspora / Anna Hartnell -- Exodus and redemption in Toni Morrison's Paradise : a magical encounter with the Bible / Anna Hartwell -- Literary hijackings : between the book of Isaiah and the Handmaid's tale / Qiuyi Tan -- In the beginningbig bang : the issue of violence in Ernesto Cardenal's Cosmic canticle / Ellin Sterne Jimmerson -- Violence, power, prophecy / Beth Hawkins Benedix -- Babel revisited : the violent visions of Kafka and Pinter / 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 in contemporary Judaism / Shaul Magid |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0230610692 |