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Sense and Sensitivity : Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll

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
eBook, English, 2002
Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2002
1 online resource (505 pages).
9780567574374, 0567574377
1049860297
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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