A Most Peculiar Book
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-065173-2 (ISBN)
In A Most Peculiar Book, Kristin Swenson addresses the dirty little secret of biblical studies — that the Bible is a weird book. It is full of surprises and contradictions, unexplained impossibilities, intriguing supernatural creatures, and heroes doing horrible deeds. It does not provide a simple worldview: what "the Bible says" on a given topic is multi-faceted, sometimes even contradictory. Yet, Swenson argues, we have a tendency to reduce the complexities of the Bible to aphorisms, bumper stickers, and slogans. Swenson helps readers look at the text with fresh eyes. A collection of ancient stories and poetry written by multiple authors, held together by the tenuous string of tradition, the Bible often undermines our modern assumptions. And is all the more marvelous and powerful for it.
Rather than dismiss the Bible as an outlandish or irrelevant relic of antiquity, Swenson leans into the messiness full-throttle. Making ample room for discomfort, wonder, and weirdness, A Most Peculiar Book guides readers through a Bible that will feel, to many, brand new.
Kristin Swenson is Associate Professor of Religious at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time and Living through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 - A Problematic Book
Chapter 2 - God
Chapter 3 - Angels, Demons, and a Talking Ass
Chapter 4 - Good People Behaving Badly
Chapter 5 - Impossibilities, Normalized
Chapter 6 - Misconception, Misapprehensions
Chapter 7 - And General Befuddlements
Chapter 8 - Arguments Behind Closed Doors
Chapter 9 - Biblical (Im)morality
Chapter 10 - But in the Original...
Chapter 11 - The Perennial Bestseller
Chapter 12 - Ten Commandments for [Best Word Here] the Bible
In Conclusion, Sola Scriputra
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 213 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-065173-3 / 0190651733 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-065173-2 / 9780190651732 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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