Power and Responsibility in Biblical Interpretation: Reading the Book of Job with Edward Said

ISBN-13: 9781845538897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str.

Alissa Jones Nelson

Opis

Biblical interpretation in the contemporary context of globalisation faces various challenges. This book addresses the challenges presented to the discipline by the incorporation of poststructuralism, postcolonialism, liberation theologies, the problem of interpretive ghettoisation, and the ethics of contemporary biblical interpretation.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to Edward W. Said: A Review of Said’s Concepts of Subjectivity, Power, Intellectual Responsibility, and the Secular; Chapter 2 Reading Contrapuntally: Adapting Said’s Concept of Contrapuntal Reading to the Field of Biblical Hermeneutics; Chapter 3 Attempting to Bridge the Gap: A Review of Contemporary Efforts to Integrate Academic and Vernacular Voices in Biblical Hermeneutics; Part 2 Interlude: Why Job?; Chapter 4 A Joban Fugue: Addressing the Issue of Suffering in the Book of Job with Gerhard Von Rad and Gustavo Gutiérrez; Chapter 5 Psychology, Physiology, Society, and Spirituality: Interpreting Job with Insight from Psychological and HIV-Positive Perspectives; Chapter 6 The Integration of Chaos and Order: Exploring Asian Interpretations of the Book of Job; conclusion; Conclusion;

O autorze

Alissa Jones Nelson completed her doctorate at the University of St Andrews in 2009. Her recent publications focus on the intersections of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and contemporary socio-political issues such as globalization, pedagogy and sexuality as well as the use of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in popular culture.