Table of Contents

Notes on contributors Preface Opening: Cracking the Binding Timothy K Beal Part One: Divine Bodies Shifting the Blame: God in the Garden Danna Nolan Fewell and David M Gunn, The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, The Hebrew God and His Female Complements Athalya Brenner, Oedipus Wrecks: Moses and God's Rod Ilona N Rashkow, Woman Wisdom and the Strange Woman: Where is Power to be Found? Claudia V Camp Part Two: Human Bodies: Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom Carol A Newsom, Imagination, Method and Murder: Un/Framing the Face of Post-Exilic Israel Danna Nolan Fewell, The Problem with Pagans Daniel L Hawk, Assuming the Body of the Heir Apparent: David's Lament Mark K George, Utopia and Pornography in Ezekiel: Violence, Hope and the Shattered Male Subject Jan William Tarlin, An Imaginary and Desirable Converse: Moses and Monotheism as Family Romance Daniel Boyarin Part Three: Textual Bodies Transference and Tact in Biblical Studies David Jobling, Margins of Lamentation, of The Unbearable Whiteness of Reading Tod Linafelt, A Postscript to The Book: Authenticating the Pseudepigrapha Kyle Keefer, What Does the Bible Say? A Question of Text and Canon David Gunn Bibliography Index

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Timothy K. Beal, David Gunn

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Lamenting the sometimes insular guild of current biblical studies, this collection of sixteen essays helps to initiate the Biblical Limits series - designed to bring postmodern perspectives to the reading of familiar biblical texts