A.K.M. Adam has brought together the most internationally esteemed voices in postmodern biblical interpretation in this extensive collection of postmodernist essays on important texts in both the Old and the New Testaments. Integrating method and actual exegesis, each athor interprets a biblical text from a postmodern perspective, offering new insights into the biblical texts. The result is a discerning and accessible reader that fully illustrates the variety of postmodern biblical interpretations. A few of the essays included are An Ending That Does Not End: The Book of Jeremiah by Walter Brueggemann; Son(s) Behaving Badly: The Prodigal in Foreign Hands by R.S. Sugirtharajah; Inside Jokes: Community and Authority in the Corinthian Correspondence by Sandra Hack Polaski.
A K M Adam is Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Glasgow, a theologian, author, priest, technologist and blogger. He has served academic appointments as Professor of New Testament at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Visiting Prof. of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School, Assistant Prof. of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College; he has served at the Cathedral Church of St Mary in Glasgow, Scotland, St Luke's Church, Evanston IL, St James Church, Tampa, Christ Church FL, New Haven CT, and has assisted in numerous other parishes and ministries . He is a writer, speaker, and provocateur who simultaneously engages the worlds of theology and technology on topics including postmodern philosophy, hermeneutics, education, and the semiotics of meaning and truth.
He has given invited presentations on technology at Digital Identity World, the Freedom To Connect conference, Ars Electronica Festival, and the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
He supports Duke University's basketball team, Bowdoin College hockey, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Boston Celtics, but it studiously non-partisan when it comes to the Rangers and Celtic.
