Rescuing the BibleISBN: 978-1-4051-7021-5
Hardcover
184 pages
November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
 Other Available Formats: Paperback
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- Explores the idea of the Bible as an unruly and uncontrollable
text that has been colonized and abused by church, synagogue, and
state, and questions what its future might be
- Powerfully argues that the Bible needs to be rescued from its
abuse by the religious and political right
- Considers the history of revolutionary readings of the Bible,
from Gerrard Winstanley to the present
- Urges a role for the Bible in a new "worldly left": an alliance
between the religious and secular left that can promote more
progressive readings of the text
- Concludes by offering a "political myth" from the Bible that condemns oppression, imagines a better society and celebrates the biblical themes of opposition and chaos.
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