Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies : Identity and The Book. Edited by Timothy K. Beal and David M. Gunn. LONDON : 1996. [ Biblical Limits ]

Routledge, 1996. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good Plus. Large Octavo. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1996. [ Series: Biblical Limits ]. Paperback. White & grey pictorial covers. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or markings. Minor use only. VERY GOOD INDEED. (xvi), 292 pages. Bibliography: p262-276. Index. CONTENTS: Opening: Cracking the Binding by Timothy K. Beal -- 1. Shifting the Blame: God in the Garden by Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn -- 2. The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz -- 3. The Hebrew God and His Female Complements by Athalya Brenner -- 4. Oedipus Wrecks: Moses and God's Rod by Ilona N. Rashkow -- 5. Woman Wisdom and the Strange Woman: Where is Power to be Found? by Claudia V. Camp -- 6. Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom by Carol A. Newsom -- 7. Imagination, Method, and Murder: Un/Framing the Face of Post-Exilic Israel by Danna Nolan Fewell -- 8. The Problem with Pagans by L. Daniel Hawk -- 9. Assuming the Body of the Heir Apparent: David's Lament by Mark K. George -- 10. Utopia and Pornography in Ezekiel: Violence, Hope, and the Shattered Male Subject by Jan William Tarlin -- 11. "An Imaginary and Desirable Converse": Moses and Monotheism as Family Romance" by Daniel Boyarin. Lg.8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Keswick, Inklings, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ] SCARCE.