The Postmodern Bible Reader (Paperback)

by David Jobling (Editor), Tina Pippin (Editor), Ronald Schleifer (Editor) "The development of what we earlier called the postmodern "ethos" has had an enormous effect on the manner in which people pursue reading and interpretation..." (more)
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'Some six years after the publication of The Postmodern Bible, this reader offers a complex and challenging companion volume to the earlier work. Drawn from the work of critics, both well-known and less familiar, it offers a contextualisation of the Bible in the contemporary in essays which read against, through and with biblical texts themselves. A superb Introduction challenges the reader through the work of seven key writers from Lyotard to Zizek, expanding the terms of the debate culturally and intellectually, reminding us that 'the postmodern' is not static, but dynamic and shifting. It will provide an invaluable resource for teachers and students. Its tone is often polemical, rhetorical and always stimulating. It brings postmodernism alive again, and therefore also the Bible. For we cannot now read the Bible outside the claims of postmodernity. The book deserves a wide readership, especially, one hopes, among biblical scholars and their students.' David Jasper, University of Glasgow

"...this volume is certain to become an indispensable resource for biblical scholars, theologians, seminarians, and graduate students." Teaching Theology & Religion

Product Description
A range of powerful contemporary engagements with the Bible by literary critics, philosophers, writers and activists is brought together for the first time in this Reader.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631219625
• ISBN-13: 978-0631219620
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,249,066 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Look at the Bible, November 28, 2001

By	Rhonda Kyncl (Norman, OK USA) - See all my reviews

This book gave me a fresh and enlightening perspective on the Biblical text. Ronald Schleifer is one of my instructors at the University of Oklahoma, and he has impressed me with his unique insight into literary texts and their connections to culture. In "The Postmodern Bible Reader", he and his colleagues have chosen essays that look at the Bible in just this way, connecting the literature with the culture.

Many of the essays are very complicated and at times difficult to read, but the effort is worthwhile and fruitful as you begin to see the Bible in a new light and experience it from the insight of others. I found each essay to be full of ideas and concepts that gave new meaning to an historical text.

I would recommend "The Postmodern Bible Reader" to anyone looking for new insight into a traditional text, to those students of the Bible who are anxious to delve into its intricacies and complex messages, and to those literary minds who are eager to learn more about the culture of our times through the literary works that permeate it.