Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1112872 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
′Some six years after the publication of The Postmodern Bible, this reader offers a complex and challenging companion volume to the earlier work. Drawn 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 Jasper, University of Glasgow
'Some six years after the publication of The Postmodern Bible, this reader offers a complex and challenging companion volume to the earlier work. Drawn 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... The book deserves a wide readership, especially, one hopes, among biblical scholars and their students.'

From the Back Cover
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. The twenty texts anthologized allow students to explore and interrogate different ways of making the Bible part of the postmodern world. The selection is based on the editors′ experience of which texts best engage students and stimulate discussion in the classroom.

A broad range of theoretical and cultural voices is represented, including creative approaches and queer theory. Each work is introduced by editorial comment tracing its definitions and history, and part introductions outline the interrelations between documents. In addition, a general introduction by the editors offers ′A Short Course on Postmodernism for Bible Readers′, proposing seven seminal theoretical texts which students can read to gain an overview of postmodern thought.

The Postmodern Bible Reader is an ideal complement to the successful A Postmodern Bible (1995) and like this text, communicates the excitement and controversy generated by new approaches to biblical studies.