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Soundings in cultural criticism : perspectives and methods in culture, power, and identity in the New Testament /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis, Fortress Press ©2013Description: xv, 231 Pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780800698003 (print : alk. paper)
  • 0800698002 (print : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS2393 .S68 2013
Contents:
Introduction and a proposal / Greg Carey -- Writing history, writing culture, writing ourselves / Mary Ann Tolbert -- Decolonizing the darkness / Musa W. Dube -- "The others" in Galatians / Jeremy Punt -- The dog-woman of Canaan and other animal tales from the Gospel of Matthew / Stephen D. Moore -- Sociology of the Sabbath in the Gospel of Mark / Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder -- The Johannine community / Yak-Hwee Tan -- Negotiating difference / Eric D. Barreto -- Naming the powers / Abraham Smith -- "Talkin' 'bout somethin'" /
Summary: "A number of disciplines aligned under 'cultural criticism' have changed the shape of contemporary biblical studies not only by offering new methods but by questioning old goals and proposing new ones. Soundings in Cultural Criticism offers a collection of succinct essays in these fields by some of the foremost scholars in New Testament studies. Questions of historical reconstruction, textual interpretation, and present cultural deployment are addressed in an ideal second textbook for New Testament courses."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-220) and indexes.

Introduction and a proposal / Greg Carey -- Writing history, writing culture, writing ourselves / Mary Ann Tolbert -- Decolonizing the darkness / Musa W. Dube -- "The others" in Galatians / Jeremy Punt -- The dog-woman of Canaan and other animal tales from the Gospel of Matthew / Stephen D. Moore -- Sociology of the Sabbath in the Gospel of Mark / Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder -- The Johannine community / Yak-Hwee Tan -- Negotiating difference / Eric D. Barreto -- Naming the powers / Abraham Smith -- "Talkin' 'bout somethin'" /

"A number of disciplines aligned under 'cultural criticism' have changed the shape of contemporary biblical studies not only by offering new methods but by questioning old goals and proposing new ones. Soundings in Cultural Criticism offers a collection of succinct essays in these fields by some of the foremost scholars in New Testament studies. Questions of historical reconstruction, textual interpretation, and present cultural deployment are addressed in an ideal second textbook for New Testament courses."--Publisher description.

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