The Bible in Theory

Critical and Postcritical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-18701-6
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: SBL - Resources for Biblical Study

The sixteen essays assembled in this volume, four of them co-authored, chart the successive phases of a professional life lived in the interstices of Bible and “theory.” Engaging such texts as the Song of Songs, 4 Maccabees, Mark, Luke-Acts, John, and Romans, and such themes as the quest for the historical Jesus, the essays simultaneously traverse postmodernism, deconstruction, New Historicism, autobiographical criticism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, masculinity studies, queer theory, and “posttheory.” Individual essay introductions and periodic annotated bibliographies make the volume an advanced introduction to biblical literary criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Stephen D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: On the Inside Looking Out While on the Outside Looking In
Postmodernity
1. The “Post-” Age Stamp: Does It Stick? Biblical Studies and the Postmodernism Debate
Further Reading on Postmodernity

Textuality
2. Illuminating the Gospels without the Benefit of Color: A Plea for Concrete Criticism
3. The Gospel of the Look
4. Are There Impurities in the Living Water Th at the Johannine Jesus Dispenses? Deconstruction, Feminism, and the Samaritan Woman
5. The Quest of the New Historicist Jesus (co-authored with Susan Lochrie Graham)
Further Reading on Poststructuralism and New Historicism

Autobiography
6. True Confessions and Weird Obsessions: Autobiographical Interventions in Literary and Biblical Studies
7. The Divine Butcher Further Reading on Autobiographical Criticism

Masculinity
8. Taking It Like a Man: Masculinity in 4 Maccabees (co-authored with Janice Capel Anderson)
9. Gigantic God: Yahweh’s Body Further Reading on Masculinity Studies

Sexuality
10. The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality
11. Unsafe Sex: Feminism, Pornography, and the Song of Songs (co-authored with Virginia Burrus)
12. Sex and the Single Apostle
Further Reading on Queer Studies

Postcoloniality
13. Questions of Biblical Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree outside Delhi; or, the Postcolonial and the Postmodern
14. “The Romans Will Come and Destroy Our Holy Place and Our Nation”: Representing Empire in John Further Reading on Postcolonial Studies

Posttheory
15. A Modest Manifesto for New Testament Literary Criticism: How to Interface with a Literary Studies Field That Is Postliterary, Posttheoretical, and Postmethodological
16. After “After Th eory” and Other Apocalyptic Conceits in Literary and Biblical Studies (co-authored with Yvonne Sherwood)
Further Reading on the “After Theory” Debate

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen D. Moore is Professor of New Testament at the Theological School, Drew University. His many books include Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge (Yale University Press), God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible (Routledge), and Empire and Apocalypse: Postcolonialism and the New Testament (Sheffield Phoenix).