Relating to the Text : Interdisciplinary and Form-Critical Insights on the Bible

by Sandoval, Timothy J.; Mandolfo, Carleen; Buss, Martin J.

• ISBN13: 9780826470492
• ISBN10: 0826470491
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
List of Contributors	xiii
Introduction	1	(11)
Carleen Mandolfo
Timothy J. Sandoval
Part I On Buss
Martin Buss---The Man and his Work (Including a Complete Bibliography)	12	(14)
John H. Hayes
Part II On Form
The Literature of Ancient Israel by Hermann Gunkel	26	(58)
Armin Siedlecki
Social Sciences and Form-Criticism: Towards the Generative Force of Life-Settings	84	(16)
Erhard S. Gerstenberger
Commenting on Commentary: Reflections on a Genre	100	(20)
Frank H. Gorman, Jr
Metaphor and Rhetorical Strategy in Zephaniah	120	(11)
Marvin A. Sweeney
Isaiah and Micah: Two Modes of Prophetic Presentation	131	(10)
Yehoshua Gitay
The Engaging Nuances of Genre: Reading Saul and Michal Afresh	141	(19)
Barbara Green
Elihu's Sapiential Hymn (Job 36.24--37.13): Genre, Rhetoric and Moral Imagination	160	(16)
Carol A. Newsom
Part III Interdisciplinary Approaches and Insights
Re-Encounter with the Text: Or the Importance of `Relational' Wrestling	176	(15)
Nickie M. Stipe
Lacan, the Phallus and the Construal of Intergenerational Kinship in Genesis--Numbers	191	(15)
Sarah J. Melcher
A Deconstructive Reading of Hosea 1--3	206	(10)
David Jobling
The Shulamite Is Not the Woman of Valor	216	(16)
David Blumenthal
Honor Restored: Honor, Shame and God as Redeeming Kinsman in Second Isaiah	232	(19)
Sarah J. Dille
Can Daughters Be Sons? The Daughters of Zelophehad in Patriarchal and Imperial Society	251	(12)
Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango
Reading Amy Tan Reading Job	263	(12)
Jeffrey K. Kuan
Beowulf's Bible: The Monsters and the Biblical Critics	275	(15)
Timothy K. Beal
Tod Linafelt
The Origins and Challenges of an Ecojustice Hermeneutic	290	(17)
Norman C. Habel
Ur of the Chaldeans and Interdisciplinary Research	307	(14)
J. Maxwell Miller
Analogical Thinking and Ancient Israelite Intellectual History: The Case for an `Entropy Model' in the Study of Israelite Thought	321	(12)
Ehud Ben Zvi
American `Orientals' and their Theatrical Bibles	333	(16)
Burke O. Long
Bibliography	349	(29)
Index of References	378	(10)
Index of Authors	388