Postmodern Bible Reader

David Jobling teaches at St Andrew's College, Canada, and is General Editor of Semeia. He is author of The Sense of Biblical Narrative and I Samuel.
Tina Pippin is Associate Professor of Religion at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She is the author of Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image (1999).



David Jobling teaches at St Andrew's College, Saskatoon, Canada, and is General Editor of Semeia. He is author of The Sense of Biblical Narrative and I Samuel.

Tina Pippin is Associate Professor of Religion at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She is the author of Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image.

Ronald Schleifer teaches at the University of Oklahoma and is co-editor of 'The Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory'. He is author of A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning.

Preface. Acknowledgments.
Introduction: A Short Course in Postmodernism for Bible Readers.
Epigraph: "Green Grass, Running Water" by Thomas King.
Part I: Rereading the Bible:.
Introduction.
1. The Structural Analysis of Narrative: Apropos of Acts 10-11: Roland Barthes.
2. On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Messages in an Edenic Language: Umberto Eco.
3. Reading the Bible: Julia Kristeva.
4. Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar: Jacques Lacan.
5. Dreaming in 1990: HÚlÞne Cixous.
6. Parable and Performative in the Gospels and in Modern Literature: J. Hillis Miller.
7. Body Politic: Mieke Bal.
Part II: The Politics of Reading:.
Introduction.
8. J. L. Austin and the Book of Jonah: Terry Eagleton.
9. The Song of Mark (Luke 1:46-55): Ernesto Cardenal.
10. A Native American Perspective: Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians: Robert Allen Warrior.
11. Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation: Katie Geneva Cannon.
12. Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape: Donna Haraway.
13. A Pedagogy for Post-Colonial Feminists: Zakia Pathak.
14. From The Book of Sodom: Paul Hallam.
Part III: The conscience of the Bible:.
Introduction.
15. Meals Among Brothers: Theory of the Joker: Michel Serres.
16. The Interior Structure of Made Objects: Elaine Scarry.
17. From Ethics and Community: Enrique Dussel.
18. On the Jewish Reading of Scriptures: Emmanuel Levinas.
19. Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know): Jacques Derrida.
20. "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Index.

* The first anthology of critical and literary theoristsa readings of the Bible. * Engages students with the different ways of making the Bible part of the a postmoderna world. * Represents a body of work which introduces new complexities, controversies and insights into biblical studies.