Disembodying Narrative
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Disembodying Narrative

A Postcolonial Subversion of Genesis

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Disembodying Narrative

A Postcolonial Subversion of Genesis

About this book

Long believed to bear witness to the beginning of all life, the Bible's first book, Genesis, has been plumbed by a cornucopia of theologies and philosophies for ideas about social organization, human relationships, class, gender and gender roles, marriage, land rights, private property, and so much more. For many readers, assumptions about a divine creator, whose eye is cast upon a favored community, are at the heart of Western societies and politics and reside at the core of many national foundation myths. Yet despite all this, Genesis is not a frequent subject of postcolonial analyses seeking to expose the rootedness of inequalities within dominant social, political, and economic institutions. At times provacative, at others conciliatory, Jeremiah Cataldo explores how postcolonialism's rudeness, anger, and subversiveness are challenges to dominant traditions of interpreting Genesis and how those traditions influence who we are, how we relate to each other, how we read the Bible, and why, despite an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, we passionately cling to what divides us.

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Yes, you can access Disembodying Narrative by Jeremiah Cataldo,Jeremiah W. Cataldo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Biblical Criticism & Interpretation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Adam, Eve, and Steve’s Serpent
  7. Colonizing Cain
  8. Highbrow Hamitic Hypothesis
  9. Flooding the World and Saving a Few
  10. Inverting the Tower of Babel
  11. Father Abraham Sentenced a Son, or Two
  12. A(n Incestual, Pedophilic) Cave-Dwelling Lot
  13. Sarah’s (Colonizing) Laughter and Hagar’s (Colonized) Tears
  14. Jacob and Esau
  15. Joseph from Lowly Status into Authoritative Body
  16. Conclusion
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. About the Author