Subverting Scriptures: Critical Reflections on the Use of the Bible

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Overview

Focusing on writers who approach the Bible as a source that is both instructive and dangerous, Subverting Scriptures seeks to provide an academic analysis of cultural biblical saturation at a time when measured voices are necessary to counterbalance politically motivated religious rhetoric. Using as its point of departure the current political landscape – where the Bible is drawn on freely and unabashedly without critical reflection to legitimate and justify all manner of agendas – the contributors in this collection engage the Bible in new, imaginative, and critical ways, in the hopes of creating a new space for dialogue.

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Overview

Focusing on writers who approach the Bible as a source that is both instructive and dangerous, Subverting Scriptures seeks to provide an academic analysis of cultural biblical saturation at a time when measured voices are necessary to counterbalance politically motivated religious rhetoric. Using as its point of departure the current political landscape – where the Bible is drawn on freely and unabashedly without critical reflection to legitimate and justify all manner of agendas – the contributors in this collection engage the Bible in new, imaginative, and critical ways, in the hopes of creating a new space for dialogue.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780230610699
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 10/13/2009
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Beth Hawkins Benedix is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Literature at DePauw University. She is the author of Reluctant Theologians: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabès (2003) and has contributed chapters to collections such as Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of Cultural Difference; Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities; The Double Bind of Ethics after the Holocaust; and Tension, Testimony and Tikkun: Teaching the Holocaust in Colleges and Universities. Her articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as Shofar, Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Jewish Quarterly Review, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Journal of the Kafka Society of America. She is currently working on the story of a Holocaust survivor.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I Setting the Stage: What Is Subversive Scripture?

1 A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to Damascus: Piety and Subversion in Johnny Cash's Man in White Jay Twomey 11

2 Refuse, Realism, Retelling: Literal and Literary Reconstructions of Noah's Ark Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg 23

II Between Speech and Silence

3 Face to Face: Biblical Traces in the Philosophy of Elie Wiesel John K Roth 45

4 Mother Tongue, Holy Tongue: On Translating and Not Translating Paul Celan John Felstiner 67

III Revolution, Rebellion, Liberation

5 Textual Hijacks: Between the Book of Isaiah and The Handmaid's Tale Qiuyi Tan 95

6 Exodus and Redemption in Toni Morrison's Paradise: A Magical Encounter with the Bible Anna Hartnell 109

7 "In the Beginning-Big Bang": Violence in Ernesto Cardenal's Cosmic Canticle Ellin Sterne Jimmerson 129

IV Exposing the Will to Power

8 Babel Revisited: Kafka and Pinter Critique the Covenant Beth Hawkins Benedix 151

9 Masters, Slaves, and the Implacable Deity of the Wilderness in Simone Zelitch's Moses in Sinai Ranen Omer-Sherman 177

10 The Modern-day Followers of the Lamb: The Rhetoric of Suffering and the Politics of Identity in the Left Behind Series W. David Hall 193

11 Subversion as Return: Scripture, Dissent, Renewal, and the Future of Judaism Shaul Magid 217

Contributors 237

Index 241

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