Reading other peoples' texts: social identity and the reception of authoritative traditions
"This volume draws together ten essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the varying ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts"--
| Summary: | "This volume draws together ten essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the varying ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts"-- Social Identity and Scriptural Interpretation: An Introduction / Ken Brown and Brennan Breed -- Boundaries and Bridges: Journeys of a Postcolonial Feminist in Biblical Studies / Musa W. Dube -- Reading without History / Michael Satlow -- What Happens to Precursor Texts in Their Successors? / Robert L. Brawley -- Redaction as Reception: Genesis 34 as Case Study / Alison L. Joseph -- Between Our Ancestors and the Other: Negotiating Identity in the Early Reception of the Water from the Rock / Ken Brown -- Abrahamic Identity in Paul and Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum / Kyle Wells -- Heracles between Slavery and Freedom: Subversive Textual Appropriation in Philo of Alexandria / Courtney Friesen -- Perspectives on a Pluriform Classic / Choon-Leong Seow -- Iconoclastic Readings: Othering in Isaiah 44 and in Its Reception in Biblical Scholarship / Sonja Ammann -- Biblical Scholarship's Ethos of Respect: Original Meanings, Original Texts, and the Reception History of Ecclesiastes / Brennan Breed. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 0567687341 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9780567687357 |