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The Labour of Reading : desire, alienation, and biblical interpretation / edited by Fiona C. Black, Roland Boer, Eric Runions.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Semeia studiesPublication details: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c1999.Description: xii, 317 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0884140113
Other title:
  • Labor of reading
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 22 220.621 LAB
LOC classification:
  • BS531 .L33 1999
Contents:
Seraphim and poetic process / Francis Landy -- What is my beloved? On erotic reading and the Song of Songs / Fiona C. Black -- To love the Lord: an intertextual reading of John 20 / Adele Reinhartz -- In the eye of the beholder: wishing, dreaming, and double entendre in the Song of Songs / J. Cheryl Exum -- Sing us one of the Songs of Zion: poetry and theology in the Hebrew Bible / Robert B. Robinson -- Imaginging arrival: rhetoric, reader, and word of God in Deuteronomy 1-3 / Susan Slater -- Yearning for Jerusalem: reading myth on the web / David M. Gunn -- Reading the land: Holy Land as text of witness / Burke O. Long -- David is a thing / Roland Boer -- Bettered woman: Elisha and the Shunammite in the Deuteronomic work / David Jobling -- Reading story in Judges I / Susan Niditch -- Icelandic and Israelite beginnings: a comaparative probe / Norman K. Gottwald -- On reading the story of the man of God from Judah in I Kings 13 / John Van Seters -- Labour of sharing / John Dominic Crossan -- Killing fields of Matthew's gospel / Gary A. Phillips -- Labouring with abusive biblical texts: tracing trajectories of Misogyny / Pamela J. Milne -- Playing it again: Utopia, contradiction, hybrid space and the bright future in Micah / Erin Runions -- In Job's face/facing Job / Edward Greenstein
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Books Bishop Bukenya Library Open Access / General collection 220.621 LAB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 159813

"The essays in this volume are presented in honour of Robert C. Culley at the time of his retirement."

Includes bibliographical references.

Seraphim and poetic process / Francis Landy -- What is my beloved? On erotic reading and the Song of Songs / Fiona C. Black -- To love the Lord: an intertextual reading of John 20 / Adele Reinhartz -- In the eye of the beholder: wishing, dreaming, and double entendre in the Song of Songs / J. Cheryl Exum -- Sing us one of the Songs of Zion: poetry and theology in the Hebrew Bible / Robert B. Robinson -- Imaginging arrival: rhetoric, reader, and word of God in Deuteronomy 1-3 / Susan Slater -- Yearning for Jerusalem: reading myth on the web / David M. Gunn -- Reading the land: Holy Land as text of witness / Burke O. Long -- David is a thing / Roland Boer -- Bettered woman: Elisha and the Shunammite in the Deuteronomic work / David Jobling -- Reading story in Judges I / Susan Niditch -- Icelandic and Israelite beginnings: a comaparative probe / Norman K. Gottwald -- On reading the story of the man of God from Judah in I Kings 13 / John Van Seters -- Labour of sharing / John Dominic Crossan -- Killing fields of Matthew's gospel / Gary A. Phillips -- Labouring with abusive biblical texts: tracing trajectories of Misogyny / Pamela J. Milne -- Playing it again: Utopia, contradiction, hybrid space and the bright future in Micah / Erin Runions -- In Job's face/facing Job / Edward Greenstein

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