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Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible

- A Reader

A.K.M. Adam  (Editor)

A.K.M. Adam has brought together the most internationally esteemed voices in postmodern biblical interpretation in this extensive collection of postmodernist essays on important texts in both the Old and the New Testaments. Integrating method and actual exegesis, each author interprets a biblical text from a postmodern perspective, offering new insights into the biblical texts. The result is a discerning and accessible reader that fully illustrates the variety of postmodern biblical interpretations.

• Building Babel, Danna Nolan Fawell  (Page 1)
  
• Leviticus and Nausea, Jon L. Berquist  (Page 17)
  
• Moses' Final Examination: The Book of Deuteronomy, Donald C. Polaski  (Page 29)
  
• Dialogues of Life and Monologues of Death: Jephthah and Jephthah's Daughter in Judges 10:6-12:7, Dennis T. Olson  (Page 43)
  
• The Secret of Succession: Elijah, Elisha, Jesus, and Derrida, Hugh­S. Pyper  (Page 55)
  
• Divining Ruth for International Relations, Musa­W. Dube  (Page 67)
  
• Is Hokmah an Israelite Goddess, and What Should We Do About It?, David Penchansky  (Page 81)
  
• Nocturnal Egression: Exploring Some Margins of the Song of Songs, Fiona C. Black  (Page 93)
  
• Isaiah 5-6: Called and Sent, Peter D. Miscall  (Page 105)
  
• An Ending That Does Not End: The Book of Jeremiah, Walter Brueggemann  (Page 117)
  
• An Abusive God? Identity and Power / Gender and Violence in Ezekiel 23, Mary E. Shields  (Page 129)
  
• Called to Do Justice? A Bhabhian Reading of Micah 5 and 6:1-8, Erin Runions  (Page 153)
  
• How to Read a Tainted Text: The Wicked Husbandmen in a Post-Holocaust Context, Tania Oldenhage  (Page 165)
  
• School's in Session: The Making and Unmaking of Docile Disciple Bodies in Mark, Deborah Krause  (Page 177)
  
• The Power of the Dog, John Dominic Crossan  (Page 187)
  
• Son(s) Behaving Badly: The Prodigal in Foreign Hands, R.S. Sugirtharajah  (Page 195)
  
• Postmodern Pentecost: A Reading of Acts 2, David Jobling  (Page 207)
  
• Paul and the Remedies of Idolatry: Reading Romans 1:18-24 with Romans 7, Teresa J. Hornsby  (Page 219)
  
• Inside Jokes: Community and Authority in the Corinthian Correspondence, Sandra Hack Polaski  (Page 233)
  
• Paul's Riposte to Fr. Rodrigues: Conceptions of Martyrdom in Philippians and Endo's Silence, Stephen Fowl  (Page 243)
  
• Eyeing the Apocalypse, Catherine Keller  (Page 253)
  

A.K.M. Adam is associate professor of New Testament at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois.