Bible as Politics
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Bible as Politics

The Rape of Dinah and Other Stories

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eBook - ePub

Bible as Politics

The Rape of Dinah and Other Stories

About this book

If you suspect the Biblical writers were onto something, but aren't convinced by the sentimental religion-of-love talk you hear so much nowadays, then maybe you will find hope reading this book. Did you know that the Creation Myths in the Bible were copied from earlier Mesopotamian myths? Or that the Moses story was based on a bloke called Sargon? Or that the story of Job is all to do with politics? Or that the two loaves, five fishes and the number 153 have symbolic meanings? These are just a few of the issues addressed in this controversial book which is not for people who like their God as Indefinable Mystery.

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Information

Publisher
Circle Books
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781782794431
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Commentary

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. About the Author
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. The Creation Myth: The revisionist editorā€™s authoritarian stamp
  8. 2. Adam and Eve and The Garden of Eden: The marginal revolutionary vision of a world without status
  9. 3. Cain: The God of the marginals marks his man
  10. 4. The Sacrifice of Isaac: The marginal strategy which affords no guarantee
  11. 5. The Rape of Dinah: The marginal strategy which firmly rejects integration
  12. 6. Moses: Folk hero or marginal hero?
  13. 7. The Baby Girl Abandoned at Birth: The transcendent stranger God: a revisionist masterpiece
  14. 8. Job: The transcendent God unmasked as a conservative lie
  15. 9. Jonah and the Whale: Lampooning the revisionists
  16. Pause: looking back at the Old Testament stories and forward to Jesusā€™ role
  17. 10. The Parable of the Doctor: Jesus stakes his ground as a Hebrew revolutionary
  18. 11. John the Baptistā€™s Question: John the Hebrew revolutionary who got it wrong
  19. 12. The Feeding of the Five Thousand: Israel needs reminding of her covenant commitment
  20. 13. The Syro-Phoenician Woman: The revolutionary strategy collides with the faith of a gentile
  21. 14. The Transfiguration: Jesus as the culmination of the Mosaic Hebrew/marginal tradition
  22. 15. The Miraculous Catch of Fish: Resurrection as the vindication of the marginal strategy
  23. 16. The Labourers in the Vineyard: A parable to shame all civilisation folk
  24. Endnotes