The Bible in Theory: Critical and Postcritical Essays (Society of Biblical Literature: Resources for Biblical Study, 57) - Hardcover

Moore, Stephen D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004187014 ISBN 13: 9789004187016

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2011

Synopsis

The sixteen essays assembled in this volume, four of them co-authored, chart the successive phases of a professional life lived in the interstices of Bible and theory. Engaging such texts as the Song of Songs, 4 Maccabees, Mark, Luke-Acts, John, and Romans, and such themes as the quest for the historical Jesus, the essays simultaneously traverse postmodernism, deconstruction, New Historicism, autobiographical criticism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, masculinity studies, queer theory, and posttheory. Individual essay introductions and periodic annotated bibliographies make the volume an advanced introduction to biblical literary criticism.

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About the Author:

Stephen D. Moore is Professor of New Testament at the Theological School, Drew University. His many books include "Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge" (Yale University Press), "God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible" (Routledge), and "Empire and Apocalypse: Postcolonialism and the New Testament" (Sheffield Phoenix).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9004187014
• ISBN 13: 9789004187016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 465