Reading Other Peoples' Texts

Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions
Herausgeber: Brown, Ken S; Vayntrub, Jacqueline; Quick, Laura; Collins, Matthew A; Breed, Brennan; Fletcher, Michelle; Joseph, Alison L

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume draws together eleven essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts. The contributions explore how interpreters of scriptural texts regularly assume or assert an identification between their own communities and those described in the text, while ignoring the cultural, social, and religious differences between themselves and the text's earliest audiences. Comparing a range of examples, these essays address varying ways in which social identity has shaped the historical contexts, implied audiences, rhetorical shaping, redactional development, literary appropriation, and reception history of particular texts over time. Together, they open up new avenues for studying the relations between social identity, scriptural interpretation, and religious authority.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780567687333
• ISBN-10: 0567687333
• Artikelnr.: 57119613

Autorenporträt

Ken Brown is Lecturer at Whitworth University, USA. Alison L. Joseph is Senior Editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, USA. Brennan Breed is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. "Social Identity and Scriptural Interpretation: An Introduction" - Ken Brown
Whitworth University
USA and Brennan Breed
Columbia Theological Seminary
USA 2. "Boundaries and Bridges: Journeys of a Postcolonial Feminist in Biblical Studies" - Musa W. Dube
University of Botswana
Republic of Botswana 3. "Reading without History
" - Michael Satlow
Brown University
USA 4. "What Happens to Precursor Texts in Their Successors?" - Robert L. Brawley
McCormick Theological Seminary
USA 5. "Redaction as Reception: Genesis 34 as Case Study
" - Alison Joseph
Jewish Theological Seminary
USA 6. "Between Our Ancestors and the Other: Negotiating Identity in the Early Reception of the Water from the Rock" - Ken Brown
Whitworth University
USA 7. "Abrahamic Identity in Paul and Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum" - Kyle Wells
Westmont College
USA 8. "Heracles between Slavery and Freedom: Subversive Textual Appropriation in Philo of Alexandria" - Courtney Friesen
University of Arizona
USA 9. "Perspectives on a Pluriform Classic" - Choon-Leong Seow
Vanderbilt Divinity School
USA 10. "Iconoclastic Readings: Othering in Isaiah 44 and in Its Reception in Biblical Scholarship
" - Sonja Ammann
University of Basel
Switzerland 11. "Biblical Scholarship's Ethos of Respect: Original Meanings
Original Texts
and the Reception History of Ecclesiastes
" - Brennan Breed
Columbia Theological Seminary
USA Bibliography Index