The Bible and posthumanism

The Bible and posthumanism

by Koosed, Jennifer L.

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What does it mean to be human? Pointing beyond human-centric ideologies, the essays in this collection explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with the critical theories of posthumanism.

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  • Full title :The Bible and posthumanism / edited by Jennifer L. Koosed.

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What does it mean to be human? Pointing beyond human-centric ideologies, the essays in this collection explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with the critical theories of posthumanism.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2014

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1589837525, 9781589837522
  • oclc:ocn879203294
  • LC Classification:BS511.3
  • Dewey Decimal:220.6

Table of Contents

Contents -- Part 1: Beginnings -- Humanity at Its Limits -- Beastly Questions and Biblical Blame -- Hauntology Meets Posthumanism: Some Payoffs for Biblical Studies -- Part 2: Lions -- The Lion King: Yahweh as Sovereign Beast in Israel�s Imaginary -- Wittgenstein�s Lion and Balaam�s Ass: Talking with Others in Numbers 22�25 -- Part 3: Bodies in Crisis -- Sick with Love: The Musical Symptoms of a Shtetl-Bound Shulammite in Waszinski�s Dybbuk -- Voluptuous, Tortured, and Unmanned: Ezekiel with Daniel Paul Schreber

The Prosthetic Friend, or Posthumanity in Lars and the Real GirlPart 4: Fathers -- Tripartite Anthropologies and the Limits of the Human in Valentinian Christian Creation Myths -- Gregory of Nyssa and Jacques Derrida on the Human-Animal Distinction in the Song of Songs -- Part 5: Sacrifice -- What Would Jesus Eat? Ethical Vegetarianism in Nascent Christianity -- Cutting up Life: Sacrifice as a Device for Clarifying�and Tormenting�Fundamental Distinctions between Human, Animal, and Divine -- Part 6: Endings

Ruminations on Revelationâ€?s Ruminant, Quadrupedal Christ or, the Even-Toed Ungulate That Therefore I Am -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index of Ancie…

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Subjects

Anthropologie Bibel Bible BIBLES -- General Criticism, interpretation, etc Humanism humanisme Posthumanismus RELIGION -- Biblical Reference RELIGION -- Biblical Studies Weltbild

Writers

Koosed, Jennifer L.

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