In this strikingly personal account of recent literary approaches to the Bible, Jeffrey Staley shows how people's life experiences relate to what they read in the Scriptures. He illustrates his argument from theories of autobiography, where recent literary and feminist critiques provide him with tools for reflecting upon his childhood on a Navajo reservation and his family's five generations of contact with the Navajo people in northern Arizona and New Mexico.Using Tony Hillerman's popular detective novels as a lens to refract his own childhood memories, Staley investigates how his cross-cultural childhood and family history have contributed to his understanding of the Fourth Gospel.By combining such diverse materials as popular fiction, medieval passion plays, cultural anthropology, rhetorical studies, and autobiographical reflection, Staley takes his readers on a fascinating spiritual and intellectual journey through the Gospel of John.>
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"A sophisticated reflection on a range of problems that postmodern and postcolonial challenges pose for the modern appropriation of canonical texts."--Toronto Journal of Theology
"I cannot recall ever being so fascinated, so exhilarated, and so encourages by a work of biblical scholarship. Reading with a Passion has the well-plotted forward momentum and gripping interest of a good novel. Almost certainly this book will be highly significant, perhaps even as a landmark."
--Stephen D. Moore
"One of the best critiques of New Testament reader-response criticism and alternatively one of the most engaging attempts to use it productively."
--Mary Gerhart
"Jeffrey Staley has crafted a work which simultaneously renders superb Bible study, transmits impeccable research, provides entertaining autobiography, and emanates prose-poetry style."--Review and Expositor --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"I cannot recall ever being so fascinated, so exhilarated, and so encourages by a work of biblical scholarship. Reading with a Passion has the well-plotted forward momentum and gripping interest of a good novel. Almost certainly this book will be highly significant, perhaps even as a landmark."
--Stephen D. Moore
"One of the best critiques of New Testament reader-response criticism and alternatively one of the most engaging attempts to use it productively."
--Mary Gerhart
"Jeffrey Staley has crafted a work which simultaneously renders superb Bible study, transmits impeccable research, provides entertaining autobiography, and emanates prose-poetry style."--Review and Expositor --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
About the Author
Jeffrey L. Staley attended Wheaton College, Fuller Theological Seminary, and the Graduate Theological Seminary in Berkeley. He teaches in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University. >
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I think that every biblical scholar ought to read this book,
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This review is from: Reading with a Passion: Rhetoric, Autobiography, and the American West in the Gospel of John (Hardcover)
I think that every biblical scholar should read this book, and every scholar of religion should read it, because I know of no better place that one can EXPERIENCE the problematics and possibilities of reading texts--either ancient or modern--and experience the issues of interpretation. Staley's book is one that INVITES rereading. And the rereading experience will bring a new reading experience simply because of how the book is designed. I can honestly say that this book comes as close to the experience of reading hypertext in the computer world as I ever expect one can come in printed form. Extraordinary both in terms of its unusual and stimulating content, and in its high quality and insightfulness. Buy it; read it--many times. I have; I will.
Denny Clark, Albertson College, ID
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sparkles with the narrative pace of good literature,
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This review is from: Reading with a Passion: Rhetoric, Autobiography, and the American West in the Gospel of John (Hardcover)
"Staley's book compels us to reconsider the entire goal and genre of bibilcal criticism. Grounded in sophisticated and capacious theoretical analysis, intimate knowledge of the critical issues pertaining to the Fourth Gospel, and perceptive, remarkably self-revealing autobiographical reflection, Staley's interpretive wager sparkles with the narrative pace, philospohical depth and unsettling power of good literature. If this is 'reading with a passion,' let us have more of it."
From a forthcoming review in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, by Douglas Burton-Christie
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