Psalms, Modernity, and the Making of History
By Walter Brueggemann
Focusing on Psalms 78, 105, 106, and 136, Walter Brueggemann considers these psalms on their own terms and then takes up two issues that move in opposite interpretive directions: the Psalms in relation to the historical writing of modernity and the P...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 4/1/1991
ISBN: 9780664251345
Format: 6x8
Pages: 108
Ideological Conflict in Job
By David Penchansky
In this book, David Penchansky examines the inconsistencies between Job's beliefs and his actions. Adapting the theories of neo-Marxist/postmodernist literary critics Fredric Jameson and Pierre Macherey, Penchansky traces ideological and theological ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 11/1/1990
ISBN: 9780664251321
Format: 6x9
Pages: 132
Resconstructing the Rhetoric and Audience of 1 Thessalonians
By Abraham Smith
This unique study considers the exegetical and hermeneutical possibilities of analyzing the entire letter of 1 Thessalonians as letter of consolation. Abraham Smith maintains that Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians with a full knowledge of the tradition of G...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 4/1/1995
ISBN: 9780664251789
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 164
Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis
By Devora Steinmetz
The family narratives in the book of Genesis are important in understanding the meaning of the book and are fundamental to the unfolding story of the birth of the Israelite nation. Devora Steinmetz sees kinship in ancient narratives as a symbolic str...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 4/1/1991
ISBN: 9780664251161
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 220
A Discourse of Power
By Elizabeth A. Castelli
What does it mean to imitate another person? What relationships are possible and necessary, or unthinkable, because of exhortation advising people to imitate Paul? What are the effects of giving special status to likeness? Questions such as these are...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 11/1/1991
ISBN: 9780664252342
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 180
By Katheryn Pfisterer Darr
Using a pragmatic, reader-orientated approach and informed by contemporary theory of metaphor and related topics, Katheryn Darr examines the meaning and functions of child and female imagery for sequential readers of the Isaiah scroll in its entirety...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 5/1/1994
ISBN: 9780664255374
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 284
By W. Dow Edgerton
In this book, W. Dow Edgerton reviews narratives from the Bible, the Talmud, Greek mythology, and modern fiction in order to provide a better understanding of the nature and work of interpretation. Disclosed are rich, complex, and compelling possibil...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/1/1992
ISBN: 9780664253943
Format: 5.5x8.5
Pages: 164
Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible
By Danna Nolan Fewell
Intertextuality (the reading of one text in terms of another) is a diverse practice. It is a central and prevalent subject in poststructuralist literary theory. Reading between Texts is the first book to address intertextuality as it relates specific...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 11/1/1992
ISBN: 9780664253936
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 288
A Case for the Literary Carnivalesque
By Kenneth Craig
In this original interpretation of the book of Esther, Kenneth Craig offers to interpreters a new way of reading this story. According to Craig, Esther has been undervalued and misunderstood because its true genre, the literary carnivalesque, has not...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 5/1/1995
ISBN: 9780664255183
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 192
By Thomas J. Jemielity
In this book, Thomas Jemielity demonstrates the striking relationship between satire and Hebrew prophecy by reviewing the role of ridicule in both and analyzing questions of nature, structure, form, and audience. This pioneering study makes compellin...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/1/1992
ISBN: 9780664252298
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 260