Reading Other Peoples' Texts
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Reading Other Peoples' Texts

Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions

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  2. English
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Reading Other Peoples' Texts

Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions

About this book

This volume draws together eleven essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts. The contributions explore how interpreters of scriptural texts regularly assume or assert an identification between their own communities and those described in the text, while ignoring the cultural, social, and religious differences between themselves and the text's earliest audiences. Comparing a range of examples, these essays address varying ways in which social identity has shaped the historical contexts, implied audiences, rhetorical shaping, redactional development, literary appropriation, and reception history of particular texts over time. Together, they open up new avenues for studying the relations between social identity, scriptural interpretation, and religious authority.

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Yes, you can access Reading Other Peoples' Texts by Ken S. Brown,Alison L. Joseph,Brennan Breed in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Biblical Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780567705204
eBook ISBN
9780567687340
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Social Identity and Scriptural Interpretation: An Introduction
  10. Boundaries and Bridges: Journeys of a Postcolonial Feminist in Biblical Studies
  11. Reading without History
  12. What Happens to Precursor Texts in Their Successors?
  13. Redaction as Reception: Genesis 34 as Case Study
  14. Between Our Ancestors and the Other: Negotiating Identity in the Early Reception of the Water from the Rock
  15. Abrahamic Identity in Paul and Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum
  16. Heracles between Slavery and Freedom: Subversive Textual Appropriation in Philo of Alexandria
  17. Perspectives on a Pluriform Classic
  18. Iconoclastic Readings: Othering in Isaiah 44 and in Its Reception in Biblical Scholarship
  19. Biblical Scholars’ Ethos of Respect: Original Meanings, Original Texts, and Reception History of Ecclesiastes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index of References
  22. Index of Authors
  23. Index of Subjects