Sense and Sensitivity Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll

by Davies, Philip R.; Hunter, Alastair G.

• ISBN13: 9780826460493
• ISBN10: 0826460496
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

In this collection of studies to the memory of Robert Carroll, and reflecting his interests in prophecy, ideology and reception history, are contributions from Graeme Auld, John Ashton, Alice Bach, Hans Barstad, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Athalya Brenner, David Clines, Johann Cook, Robert Davidson, Philip Davies, Sean Freyne, Norman Gottwald, Lester Grabbe, John Halligan, Alastair Hunter, David Jasper, William Johnstone, Gabriel Josipovici, Francis Landy, Heather McKay, Stephen Prickett, Hugh Pyper, Stefan Reif, John Sawyer, Robert Setio, Yvonne Sherwood, Carol Smith and Johanna Stiebert.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xv
List of Contributors	xvii
Part I Reading Robert Carroll
The Tenacity of the Word: Using Jeremiah 36 to Attempt to Construct an Appropriate Edifice to the Memory of Robert Carroll	3	(30)
Mark Brummitt
Yvonne Sherwood
Part II Reading Biblical Texts: Biblical Exegesis
The Maligned Patriarch: Prophetic Ideology and the `Bad Press' of Esau	33	(16)
Johanna Stiebert
Saul and the Mistress of the Spirits (1 Samuel 28.3-25)	49	(14)
Joseph Blenkinsopp
Counting Sheep, Sins and Sour Grapes: The Primary of the Primary History?	63	(10)
Graeme Auld
Reading David's Mind: Inference, Emotion and the Limits of Language	73	(14)
Hugh S. Pyper
Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah and the Historical Prophet	87	(14)
Hans M. Barstad
Creating Waves: Why the Fictionality of Jonah Matters	101	(16)
Alastair G. Hunter
The `False Pen of Scribes': Intellectuals Then and Now	117	(10)
Philip R. Davies
Through the Eyes of Horses: Representation of the Horse Family in the Hebrew Bible	127	(15)
Heather A. McKay
Unsolved Mysteries: The Second Temple	142	(19)
John Halligan
Part III Reading the Readers: Ideology and Reception of the Bible
The Bible in Church and Academy	161	(13)
Robert Davidson
`The Comfortable Theory', `Maximal conservatism' and Neo-Fundamentalism Revisited	174	(20)
Lester L. Grabbe
Representing Minimalism: The Rhetoric and Reality of Revisionism	194	(30)
Keith W. Whitelam
Jews, Hebraists and `Old Testament' Studies	224	(22)
Stefan C. Reif
Isaiah and Zionism	246	(15)
John F.A. Sawyer
Prophetic Intercourse	261	(19)
Francis Landy
The Law of Moses as a Fence and a Fountain	280	(9)
Johann Cook
The Text of War in the Context of War: A Functional Reading	289	(13)
Robert Setio
Age and Ageism in the Hebrew Bible, in an Autobiographical Perspective	302	(9)
Athalya Brenner
He-Prophets: Masculinity as a Problem for the Hebrew Prophets and their Interpreters	311	(20)
David J.A. Clines
Part IV Reading the Signs: The Bible and Cultural Studies
Literature and the Possibility of Theology	331	(12)
David Jasper
Polyphonic Carrolling: Heteroglossia, Pluralism, and Editing The Bible	343	(15)
Stephen Prickett
Vibrant Spaces	358	(16)
Gabriel Josipovici
Browning on Feuerbach and Renan	374	(11)
John Ashton
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Girl in the Guild	385	(10)
Alice Bach
What was in the Scripture Knowledge Syllabus at Bertie Wooster's Prep School?	395	(21)
Carol Smith†
Interpictoriality: The Lives of Moses and Jesus in the Murals of the Sistine Chapel	416	(41)
William Johnstone
Bibliography of Robert Carroll's Writings	457	(6)
Index of References	463	(12)
Index of Authors	475