The Postmodern Bible ReaderISBN: 978-0-631-21961-3
Hardcover
400 pages
August 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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'Some six years after the publication of The Postmodern
Bible, this reader offers a complex and challenging companion
volume to the earlier work. Drawn from the work of critics, both
well-known and less familiar, it offers a contextualisation of the
Bible in the contemporary in essays which read against, through and
with biblical texts themselves. A superb Introduction challenges
the reader through the work of seven key writers from Lyotard to
Zizek, expanding the terms of the debate culturally and
intellectually, reminding us that 'the postmodern' is not static,
but dynamic and shifting. It will provide an invaluable resource
for teachers and students. Its tone is often polemical, rhetorical
and always stimulating. It brings postmodernism alive again, and
therefore also the Bible. For we cannot now read the Bible outside
the claims of postmodernity. The book deserves a wide readership,
especially, one hopes, among biblical scholars and their students.'
David Jasper, University of Glasgow
"...this volume is certain to become an indispensable resource for biblical scholars, theologians, seminarians, and graduate students." Teaching Theology & Religion