Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies

The essays explore how religious, political and cultural identities, including ethnicity and gender, are embodied in biblical discourse. Following the authors, we read the Bible with new eyes: as a critic of gender, ideology, politics and culture. We ask ourselves new questions: about God's body, about women's role, about racial prejudices and about the politics of the written word.Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies crosses boundaries. It questions our most fundamental assumptions about the Bible. It shows how biblical studies can benefit from the mainstream of Western intellectual discourse, throwing up entirely new questions and offering surprising answers.

First sentence: As signs of a postmodern condition appear with increasing frequency, we find ourselves returning once again to a familiar crossroads in the study of a religion.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Routledge

Editions

2

Pages

292

ISBN

9780415126649

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