Yvonne Sherwood

Biblical Blaspheming

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies and examines ways of talking and thinking about the Bible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007864
• ISBN-10: 1107007860
• Artikelnr.: 35579603

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Sherwood is Professor of Bible, Religion and Culture at the University of Glasgow. She is author of A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Derrida's Bible: Reading a Page of Scripture with a Little Help from Derrida (2004); The Prostitute and the Prophet (2004) and, with Stephen Moore, of The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto (2011). She is co-editor of Sanctified Aggression: Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence (with Jonneke Bekkenkamp, 2003) and, with Kevin Hart, of Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. The Persistence of Blasphemy: 1. The persistence of
blasphemy: the Bible as a public edifice in the secular state; Part II.
Biblical Exhibitions/Biblical Exhibitionism: 2. The exquisite fruit-corpse
and the surrealist works of God; 3. Prophetic scatology: prophecy and the
art of sensation; Part III. Inappropriate Involvement in the Biblical Text:
4. A recently discovered letter from Isaac to Abraham (annotated); 5.
Passion-binding-passion: sacrifice, masochism and the subject; Part IV.
Beyond 'the Bible as Literature': 6. 'Not with a bang but a whimper':
shrunken apocalypses in Ecclesiastes 12.1-8 and twentieth-century
modernism; 7. The fear of loss inherent in writing: Jeremiah 36 as the
tedious self-narration of a highly self-conscious scroll with Mark
Brummitt; 8. John Donne and the Baroque prophets; Part V. Theo-politics,
Authority and the Bible: 9. On the genesis of the alliance between the
Bible and rights; 10. Binding-unbinding: pre-critical 'critique' in
pre-modern Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to the 'sacrifice' of
Abraham/Ibrahim's son.