This volume draws together eleven essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts. The contributions explore how interpreters of scriptural texts regularly assume or assert an identification between their own communities and those described in the text, while ignoring the cultural, social, and religious differences between themselves and the text's earliest audiences. Comparing a range of examples, these essays address varying ways in which social identity has shaped the historical contexts, implied audiences, rhetorical shaping, redactional development, literary appropriation, and reception history of particular texts over time. Together, they open up new avenues for studying the relations between social identity, scriptural interpretation, and religious authority.

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Information

Publisher

T&T Clark

Year

2020

ISBN

9780567687340

Edition

Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Biblical Studies

Cover
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
Social Identity and Scriptural Interpretation: An Introduction
Boundaries and Bridges: Journeys of a Postcolonial Feminist in Biblical Studies
Reading without History
What Happens to Precursor Texts in Their Successors?
Redaction as Reception: Genesis 34 as Case Study
Between Our Ancestors and the Other: Negotiating Identity in the Early Reception of the Water from the Rock
Abrahamic Identity in Paul and Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum
Heracles between Slavery and Freedom: Subversive Textual Appropriation in Philo of Alexandria
Perspectives on a Pluriform Classic
Iconoclastic Readings: Othering in Isaiah 44 and in Its Reception in Biblical Scholarship
Biblical Scholars’ Ethos of Respect: Original Meanings, Original Texts, and Reception History of Ecclesiastes
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects