Postmodern Bible : The Bible and Culture

This book is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today. Written by a collective of cutting-edge scholars, the book introduces, illustrates, and critiques seven prominent strategies of reading: rhetorical criticism, narratology, reader-response criticism, feminist criticism, ideological criticism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism.

Acknowledgments

ix

List of Contributors

xi

Introduction

1

(1)

Toward Transforming Readings of the Bible

1

(7)

Postmodernism

8

(4)

Postmodernism and Biblical Studies

12

(3)

The Bible and Culture Collective

15

(5)

Reader-Response Criticism

20

(50)

Reading the Feeding Stories in Mark

20

(4)

Mapping Reader-Response Criticism

24

(14)

Critiquing the Critic as Reader

38

(13)

The Future of Reading

51

(19)

Structuralist And Narratological Criticism

70

(49)

Readings of Biblical Narratives

71

(5)

Surveying the Field

76

(19)

A Critique of Structuralism

95

(15)

Looking to the Future

110

(9)

Poststructuralist Criticism

119

(30)

Deconstruction and Derrida

119

(6)

Biblical Poststructuralism

125

(3)

Deconstruction and Reading

128

(7)

Scriptural A/theology

135

(3)

Foucault and History

138

(7)

Reading the Future

145

(4)

Rhetorical Criticism

149

(38)

Reading 1 Corinthians

150

(6)

The Emergence of the New Rhetoric

156

(6)

A Critical View of the New Rhetoric

162

(6)

Rhetoric and Religion

168

(3)

The New Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible

171

(7)

Rereading 1 Corinthians

178

(5)

The Future of Rhetorical Criticism

183

(4)

Psychoanalytic Criticism

187

(38)

Freud as Religionist and Biblical Scholar

187

(9)

Lacan as Midrashist, Biblical Scholar, and Theologian

196

(15)

Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Kristeva and Irigaray

211

(11)

Looking to the Future

222

(3)

Feminist And Womanist Criticism

225

(47)

Exemplary Biblical Readings

226

(8)

Feminism, Womanism, and the Politics of Interpretation

234

(10)

History and Practice of Feminist and Womanist Readings

244

(23)

The Future of Feminist and Womanist Readings

267

(5)

Ideological Criticism

272

(37)

Defining Ideology and Ideological Criticism

272

(5)

Ideological Criticism and the Bible: Cracking the Singular Voice

277

(3)

The Ideological Stances of Liberation Hermeneutics

280

(2)

Decolonizing Exodus and Conquest: Readings in Tension

282

(11)

Mark and Materialism: Readings in Tension

293

(8)

The Discourses of Resistance

301

(8)

Postscript

309

(2)

Bibliography

311

(72)

Index

383

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