Semeia 77: Bible and Ethics of Reading
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“Rather, I wish to suggest that the subject of biblical interpretation does not only precede but is also formed, in part, through practices of reading.” (Page 141)
“Postmodernism also questions totalizing schemes for explaining any or all of reality, whether these totalizing schemes include metanarratives about the essence of the universe or humanity or the self (Adam: 10).5 Furthermore, postmodernism demystifies any belief that appears natural and universal. It exposes such a belief as a ‘modern’ power play and the ‘reason’ behind it as a temporal, situated rationality (Adam: 14).” (Page 119)
“This fear of illegitimacy is an all too common contemporary phenomenon which leads some erstwhile liberation proponents to ‘seek to separate themselves and their work from anything related to their negative subject positions’ (Tolbert, 1995a:269).” (Page 126)
“For if it is difficult to assume that there is a transhistorical, cross-cultural essence of ‘woman’ shared by all women, it is also difficult to argue that there is an identity or experience shared by all gay men.” (Page 141)
- Richard Bowman
- Jo-Ann A. Brant
- Danna Nolan Fewell
- Chris Heard
- Shawn Kelley
- Francis Lady
- Tania Oldenhage
- Daniel Patte
- Gary A. Phillips
- Adele Reihartz
- Efraim Sicher
- Abraham Smith
- Genrie Snyman
- Ken Stone
- Richard Swanson
- Title: Semeia 77: Bible and Ethics of Reading
- Editors: Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1998
- Pages: 290
Danna Nolan Fewell is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, Texas.
