Download e-book for kindle: Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies: Identity and The Book by Timothy K. Beal,David Gunn

By Timothy K. Beal,David Gunn

ISBN-10: 0415126649

ISBN-13: 9780415126649

ISBN-10: 0415126657

ISBN-13: 9780415126656

The Bible is frequently acknowledged to be one of many starting place texts of Western tradition. the current quantity exhibits that it is going some distance past being a non secular textual content. The essays discover how spiritual, political and cultural identities, together with ethnicity and gender, are embodied in biblical discourse. Following the authors, we learn the Bible with new eyes: as a critic of gender, ideology, politics and tradition. We ask ourselves new questions: approximately God's physique, approximately women's position, approximately racial prejudices and in regards to the politics of the written word.
Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies crosses obstacles. It questions our so much basic assumptions in regards to the Bible. It indicates how bible study can enjoy the mainstream of Western highbrow discourse, throwing up solely new questions and providing astounding solutions. obtainable, enticing and relocating simply among thought and the studying of particular texts, this quantity is an exhilarating contribution to modern biblical and cultural studies.

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