Reading other peoples' texts : social identity and the reception of authoritative traditions /

"This volume draws together ten essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the varying ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Breed, Brennan W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Brown, Ken, 1982- (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Joseph, Alison L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : T&T Clark, 2020
Series:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 692
Scriptural traces ; 20
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Social identity and scriptural interpretation : an introduction / Ken Brown, Brennan Breed
  • Boundaries and bridges : journeys of a postcolonial feminist in Biblical studies / Musa W. Dube
  • Reading without history / Michael L. Satlow
  • What happens to precursor texts in their auccessors? / Robert L. Brawley
  • Redaction as reception : Genesis 34 as case study / Alison L. Joseph
  • Between our ancestors and the other : negotiating identity in the early reception of the water from the rock / Ken Brown
  • Abrahamic identity in Paul and Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum / Kyle B. Wells
  • Heracles between slavery and freedom : subversive textual appropriation in Philo of Alexandria / Courtney J.P. Friesen
  • Perspectives on a pluriform classic / C.L. Seow
  • Iconoclastic readings : othering in Isaiah 44 and in its reception in Biblical scholarship / Sonja Ammann
  • Biblical scholars' ethos of respect : original meanings, original texts, and reception history of Ecclesiastes / Brennan Breed
  • Social identity and scriptural interpretation : an introduction / Ken Brown, Brennan Breed
  • Boundaries and bridges : journeys of a postcolonial feminist in Biblical studies / Musa W. Dube
  • Reading without history / Michael L. Satlow
  • What happens to precursor texts in their auccessors? / Robert L. Brawley
  • Redaction as eeception : Genesis 34 as case study / Alison L. Joseph
  • Between our ancestors and the other : negotiating identity in the early reception of the water from the rock / Ken Brown
  • Abrahamic identity in Paul and Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum / Kyle B. Wells
  • Heracles between slavery and freedom : subversive textual appropriation in Philo of Alexandria / Courtney J.P. Friesen
  • Perspectives on a pluriform classic / C.L. Seow
  • Iconoclastic readings : othering in Isaiah 44 and in Its reception in Biblical scholarship / Sonja Ammann
  • Biblical scholars' ethos of respect : original meanings, original texts, and reception history of Ecclesiastes / Brennan Breed