Description
Book SynopsisInspired by and engaging with the provocative and prolific work of Stephen D. Moore, Bible and Theory showcases some of the most current thinking emerging at the intersections of critical methods with biblical texts. The result is a plurality of readings that deconstruct customary disciplinary boundaries. These chapters, written by a wide range of biblical scholars, collectively argue by demonstration for the necessity and benefits of biblical criticism inflected with queer theory, literary criticism, postmodernism, cultural studies, and more. Bible and Theory: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Stephen D. Moore invites the reader to rethink what constitutes the Bible and to reconsider what we are doing when we read and interpret it.
Table of ContentsOn Method(s)
1. Method Man K. Jason Coker and Scott S. Elliott
2. Allegoric Reaction: Revulsion, Desire, and Method in Interpretation A. K. M. Adam
3. More Fragments from an Autobiographical Midrash on John’s Gospel Jeffrey L. Staley
4. The Creative Non-Fiction of Biblical Scholar Stephen D. Moore H. Aram Veeser
5. Stories Thrown Together George Aichele
On Text(s)
6. A Dead Spouse, A Vegetable Garden, a Cousin’s Field on Private Property, and the Hebrew Bible
Roland Boer
7. Matthew, Mark, and Paul: The Vintage Sounds of the Implied Author Janice Capel Anderson
8. Air Jesus: Fear of Flying in the Gospel of Mark Tina Pippin
9. When Hannah Met Luke: A Sub-Version of Luke’s Annunciations Danna Nolan Fewell
10. It’s Just a Flesh Wound: On Reading the Tortured Body of the Johannine Jesus Colleen M. Conway
11. Moore Materialism: Apocalypse, Animal Christs, and an Unlikely Absolute Catherine Keller
12. Queer Mothers: The Gender Construction of Martyrs Jennifer L. Koosed and Robert Paul Seesengood
On Reading(s)
13. What Am I Reading When I Read My Bible? Stephen D. Moore
