Timothy K. Beal

The Book of Hiding

Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther

Buch

The Book of Hiding offers a fluent and erudite analysis of the parallels between the Bible and contemporary discussions of gender, ethnicity and social ambiguity. Beal focuses particularly on the traditionally marginalised book of Esther, in order to examine closely the categories of self and other in relation to religion, sexism, nationalism, and the ever-looming legacies and future possibilities of annihilation. Beal applies the critical tools of contemporary theorists, such as Cixous, Irigaray and Levinas, challenging widely held assumptions about the moral and life-affirming message of Scripture and even about the presence of God in the b… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-415-16779-6
EAN: 9780415167796
Produktnummer: 2355402
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 168 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.8 cm 470 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 470

Über den Autor

Timothy K. Beal is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Eckerd College, Florida. He is the Chair of the Reading, Theory and the Bible section of the Society of Biblical Literature. He is co-editor, with David Gunn, of Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies: Identity and the Book (Routledge 1996).