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Augsburg Fortress Publishers
- Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis: Political Exegesis for a New Day
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier “political exegesis” have been replaced; Bruce Worthington argues that increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global “turbo-capitalism.” In this volume, edited by Worthington, biblical scholars and activists describe and exemplify the shape of a biblical interpretation that takes contemporary crisis seriously as its most important context. Succinct opening essays summarize the salient aspects of our critical situation, especially in relation to the dominance of capitalism and its pervasive values; in later parts, contributions address themes of economic, political, and environmental crisis in dialogue with texts from the First and Second Testaments. Throughout the volume, the authors are careful to describe the basis for making interpretive analogies across historical, cultural, and socioeconomic distances between the world of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and our own. Richard A. Horsley writes a postscript pointing to next steps in political interpretation.
Table of Contents
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- Contributors
- pp. vii-viii
- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Part I: Global Crisis and the Practice of Biblical Studies
- 3. Occupying My Desk
- pp. 53-84
- 4. Solidarity! Conditions Apply
- pp. 85-106
- Part II: Global Crisis and the First Testament
- Part III: Global Crisis and the Second Testament
- 13. Why Bother with Biblical Studies?
- pp. 313-356
Additional Information
ISBN
9781506400396
MARC Record
OCLC
919234471
Pages
363
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-28
Language
English
Open Access
No