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The Five Scrolls: Texts @ Contexts
Contributor(s): Brenner-Idan, Athalya (Editor), Patte, Daniel (Editor), Lee, Archie C. C. (Editor)
ISBN: 0567690016     ISBN-13: 9780567690012
Publisher: T&T Clark
OUR PRICE:   $46.48  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General
Dewey: 221.044
Series: Texts @ Contexts
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.78 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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In this collection, scholars from diverse geographical locations revisit a cluster of five biblical texts: Ruth, Song of Songs, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), Lamentations and Esther. The volume presents various viewpoints and contexts-geographical, communal, religious, social, economical and ethical. Matching scholarship with social awareness, the contributors keep asking themselves and their readers a dual-faced question: how does our life context influence our scholarly and non-scholarly readings of the Bible, and how does reading the Bible critically influence our life?

To answer this question and to show it at work the contributors employ a range of contextual lenses. Geography is a major factor of the contributors' contexts - with contributors from South Africa, Argentina, Israel, the Pacific Islands - but not the only one to influence their readings. Issues of society, culture and community are at the foreground for all contributors and their reading agendas with specific focus on the AIDs crisis in Africa, issues of migration and asylum, and feminist approaches to biblical texts.

Contributor Bio(s): Brenner-Idan, Athalya: - Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http: //athalya-morah-letorah.com.