Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition
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Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition

About this book

The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukács, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts. In this second edition, Boer has added chapters on Deleuze and Guattari, and Negri. Each chapter has been carefully revised to make the book more useful on courses, while maintaining challenges and insights for postgraduate students and scholars. Theoretical material has been updated and sharpened in light of subsequent research and a revised conclusion considers the economies of the ancient world in relation to biblical societies.

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Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: Touchstones for Marxist criticism
  8. 1 Louis Althusser: The difficult birth of Israel in Genesis
  9. 2 Antonio Gramsci: The emergence of the ‘Prince’ in Exodus
  10. 3 Deleuze and Guattari: Nomads, scapegoats and resistance
  11. 4 Terry Eagleton: The class struggles in Ruth
  12. 5 Henri Lefebvre: The production of space in 1 Samuel
  13. 6 Georg Lukács: The contradictory world of Kings
  14. 7 Theodor Adorno: The logic of divine justice in Isaiah
  15. 8 Ernst Bloch: Anti-Yahwism in Ezekiel
  16. 9 Antonio Negri: Job, or bending transcendence to immanence
  17. 10 Fredric Jameson: The contradictions of form in the Psalms
  18. 11 Walter Benjamin: The unknowable apocalyptic of Daniel
  19. Conclusion: The sacred economy
  20. Bibliography
  21. Biblical Index
  22. Index