Genesis

Procreation and the Politics of Identity
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-14149-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 375 g

Reihe: Old Testament Readings

Combining insights from social and literary theory as well as traditional historical studies, Mark Brett argues that the first book of the Bible can be read as resistance literature.
Placing the theological text firmly within its socio-political context, he shows that the editors of Genesis were directly engaged with contemporary issues, especially the nature of an authentic community, and that the book was designed to undermine the ethnocentism of the imperial governors of the Persian period (fifth century BCE).

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brett, Mark G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Bibelwissenschaften: Sachbuch, Erbauung, Didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the contest of methods1 Genesis 1–11: creation and dominance 2 Genesis 12–25: the making of nations 3 Genesis 26–36: on tricksters 4 Genesis 37–50: reasons of state 5 Whose Genesis? Which orthodoxy?

Über Autor(innen)

Mark G. Brett is Professor of Old Testament at Whitley College, Melbourne. He is the editor of Ethnicity and the Bible (1996) and the author of Biblical Criticism in Crisis (1991).