Originally published: 2011. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Valentine Cunningham. Bible reading and/after theory / Rachel Havrelock -- Job / John F. A. Sawyer -- Psalms / Katherine J. Dell -- Isaiah / John F. A. Sawyer -- Ezekiel / Paul M. Joyce -- Daniel / John J. Collins -- Judges / David M. Gunn -- Gospel of John / Catrin H. Williams -- Romans / Guy J. Williams -- 1 Corinthians / Judith L. Kovacs -- Galatians / John Riches -- Revelation / Christopher Rowland -- Bible and iconography / Albert C. Labriola -- Linguistic and cultural influences on interpretation in translations of the Bible / David J. Clark -- Memory, imagination, and the interpretation of Scripture in the Middle Ages / Mary Carruthers -- Origins, scope, and spread of the millenarian idea / Peter Clarke -- Non-retaliation and military force : their basis in the Bible / Richard Harries -- Bible and anti-Semitism / Tobias Nicklas -- Dante and the Bible : a sketch / Piero Boitani -- George Friedric Handel and The Messiah / John Butt -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The woman's Bible / Ann Loades -- Uchimura and the Bible in Japan / Atsuhiro Asano -- One Bible, two preachers : patchwork sermons and sacred art in the American South / Carol Crown -- Bob Dylan's Bible / Michael J. Gilmour -- From John's Gospel to Dan Brown : the Magdalene code / Robin Griffith-Jones -- Gnostic Interpretations of Genesis / Ismo Dunderberg -- Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Huxley, and Genesis / John Hedley Brooke -- Sodomy and gendered love : reading Genesis 19 in the Anglican communion / Jay Emerson Johnson -- Exodus in early twentieth century America : Charles Reynolds Brown and Lawrence Langner / Scott M. Langston -- Exodus in Latin America / Paulo Nogueira -- Elihu's spiritual sensation : William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job / Emma Mason -- Ezekiel 1 and the Nation of Islam / Michael Lieb -- Post-Holocaust Jewish Interpretations of Job / Isabel Wollaston -- Seventh-Day Adventists, Daniel, and Revelation / Kenneth G. C. Newport -- Esther and Hitler : a second triumphant Purim / Jo Carruthers -- Kierkegaard on the lilies and the birds : Matthew 6 / George Pattison -- Ghandi's interpretation of the Sermon on the mount / Jeremy Holtom -- Preaching, politics, and Paul in contemporary African American Christianity / Brad Braxton -- Ruskin, the Bible, and the death of Rose La Touche : a torn manuscript of the human soul / Zoë Bennett -- Karl Barth on Romans / Tim Gorringe -- Augustine and Pelagius on the Epistle to the Romans / Mark Edwards -- Luther on Galatians / Peter Matheson -- Joanna Southcott : enacting the woman clothed with the sun / Gordon Allan -- Bible reading and/after theory / Valentine Cunningham.
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