Sense and Sensitivity
Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2002
504 pages
978-0-567-57437-4 (ISBN)
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In this collection of studies to the memory of Robert Carroll, and reflecting his interests in prophecy, ideology and reception history, are contributions from Graeme Auld, John Ashton, Alice Bach, Hans Barstad, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Athalya Brenner, David Clines, Johann Cook, Robert Davidson, Philip Davies, Sean Freyne, Norman Gottwald, Lester Grabbe, John Halligan, Alastair Hunter, David Jasper, William Johnstone, Gabriel Josipovici, Francis Landy, Heather McKay, Stephen Prickett, Hugh Pyper, Stefan Reif, John Sawyer, Robert Setio, Yvonne Sherwood, Carol Smith and Johanna Stiebert.
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1. Auflage
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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978-0-567-57437-4 (9780567574374)
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Sense and Sensitivity
Essays on Biblical Prophecy, Ideology and Reception in Tribute to Robert Carroll
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Part I: READING ROBERT CARROLL
- The Tenacity of the Word: Using Jeremiah 36 to Attempt to Construct an Appropriate Edifice to the Memory of Robert Carroll
- Part II: READING BIBLICAL TEXTS: BIBLICAL EXEGESIS
- The Maligned Patriarch: Prophetic Ideology and the 'Bad Press' of Esau
- Saul and the Mistress of the Spirits (1 Samuel 28.3-25)
- Counting Sheep, Sins and Sour Grapes: The Primacy of the Primary History?
- Reading David's Mind: Inference, Emotion and the Limits of Language
- Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah and the Historical Prophet
- Creating Waves: Why the Fictionality of Jonah Matters
- The 'False Pen of Scribes': Intellectuals Then and Now
- Through the Eyes of Horses: Representaton of the Horse Family in the Hebrew Bible
- Unsolved Mysteries: The Second Temple
- Part III: READING THE READERS: IDEOLOGY AND RECEPTION OF THE BIBLE
- The Bible in Church and Academy
- 'The Comfortable Theory', 'Maximal Conservatism' and Neo-Fundamentalism Revisited
- Representing Minimalism: The Rhetoric and Realitiy of Revisionism
- Jews, Hebraists and 'Old Testament' Studies
- Isaiah and Zionism
- Prophetic Intercourse
- The Law of Moses as a Fence and a Fountain
- The Text of War in the Context of War: A Functional Reading
- Age and Ageism in the Hebrew Bible, in an Autobiographical Perspective
- He-Prophets: Masculinity as a Problem for the Hebrew Prophets and their Interpreters
- Part IV: READING THE SIGNS: THE BIBLE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
- Literature and the Possibility of Theology
- Polyphonic Carrolling: Heteroglossia, Pluralism, and Editing The Bible
- Vibrant Spaces
- Browning on Feuerbach and Renan
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Girl in the Guild
- What was in the Scripture Knowledge Syllabus at Bertie Wooster's Prep School?
- Interpictoriality: The Lives of Moses and Jesus in the Murals of the Sistine Chapel
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors
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