The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. This text is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament.
The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. This text is both comprehensive and comparative in it...
This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might re-order the way in which we interpret the New Testament.
This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might re-order the way in which we interpret t...
In Borderline Exegesis, Leif Vaage presents an alternative approach to biblical interpretation, or exegesis--an approach that bends the boundaries of the traditional North American methodology to analyze the meaning of biblical texts for a wider audience. To accomplish this, Vaage engages in a practice he calls "borderline exegesis." Adapting anthropological notions of borderlands, borderline exegesis writes biblical scholarship peripherally, unearthing the Bible's textual and discursive borderlands and allowing biblical texts to be at play with the utopian imagination.
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In Borderline Exegesis, Leif Vaage presents an alternative approach to biblical interpretation, or exegesis--an approach that bends the bo...