Universalism and Particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah

Essays in Memory of Ron Pirson
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21984-7
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: SBL - Ancient Israel and Its Literature

This book reexamines the Sodom and Gomorrah narrative in Genesis 18–19, an ethically charged text that has significantly influenced views about homosexuality, stereotyping the other, the rewards and risks of hospitality, and the justice owed to outsiders. Its twelve essays, reflecting their authors’ considerable geographical, religious, methodological, and academic diversity, explore this troubling text through the lens of universalism and particularism. Biblical Sodom is read as the site of multiple borders—fluid, porous, and bi-directional—between similar and different, men and angels, men and women, fathers and daughters, insiders and outsiders, hosts and guests, residents and aliens, chosen and nonchosen, and people and God. Readers of these exegetically and theologically attentive essays published in memory of Ron Pirson will experience a rare sense of an ancient text being read in and for the modern world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipton, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors: Calum Carmichael, Diana Lipton, William John Lyons, Nathan MacDonald, Amira Meir, Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg, T. A. Perry, Ron Pirson, Jonathan D. Safren, Megan Warner, Harlan J. Wechsler, and Ellen J. van Wolde.

Über Autor(innen)

Lipton, Diana
Diana Lipton is a visiting lecturer at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Revisions of the Night: Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal Dreams of Genesis (Sheffield Academic Press) and Longing for Egypt and Other Unexpected Biblical Tales (Sheffield Phoenix Press).