{"product_id":"reading-other-peoples-texts-9780567687333","title":"Reading Other Peoples Texts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume draws together eleven essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts.   The contributions explore how interpreters of scriptural texts regularly assume or assert an identification between their own communities and those described in the text, while ignoring the cultural, social, and religious differences between themselves and the text's earliest audiences. Comparing a range of examples, these essays address varying ways in which social identity has shaped the historical contexts, implied audiences, rhetorical shaping, redactional development, literary appropriation, and reception history of particular texts over time. Together, they open up new avenues for studying the relations between social identity, scriptural interpretation, and religious authority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/b\u003e 1. “Social Identity and Scriptural Interpretation: An Introduction” - \u003ci\u003eKen Brown, Whitworth University, USA and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrennan Breed, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 2. “Boundaries and Bridges: Journeys of a Postcolonial Feminist in Biblical Studies” - \u003ci\u003eMusa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Republic of Botswana\u003c\/i\u003e 3. “Reading without History,” - \u003ci\u003eMichael Satlow, Brown University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 4. “What Happens to Precursor Texts in Their Successors?” - \u003ci\u003eRobert L. Brawley, McCormick Theological Seminary, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 5. “Redaction as Reception: Genesis 34 as Case Study,” - \u003ci\u003eAlison Joseph, Jewish Theological Seminary, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 6. “Between Our Ancestors and the Other: Negotiating Identity in the Early Reception of the Water from the Rock” - \u003ci\u003eKen Brown, Whitworth University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 7. “Abrahamic Identity in Paul and \u003ci\u003eLiber Antiquitatum Biblicarum\u003c\/i\u003e” - \u003ci\u003eKyle Wells, Westmont College, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 8. “Heracles between Slavery and Freedom: Subversive Textual Appropriation in Philo of Alexandria” - \u003ci\u003eCourtney Friesen, University of Arizona, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 9. “Perspectives on a Pluriform Classic” - \u003ci\u003eChoon-Leong Seow, Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 10. “Iconoclastic Readings: Othering in Isaiah 44 and in Its Reception in Biblical Scholarship,” - \u003ci\u003eSonja Ammann, University of Basel, Switzerland\u003c\/i\u003e 11. “Biblical Scholarship’s Ethos of Respect: Original Meanings, Original Texts, and the Reception History of Ecclesiastes,” - \u003ci\u003eBrennan Breed, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA\u003c\/i\u003e Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525614870871,"sku":"9780567687333","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780567687333.jpg?v=1731861184","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-other-peoples-texts-9780567687333","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}