A brief introduction to the scholarly methodology known as "poststructuralism," with focus on the importance of the materiality of the signifier and how that materiality both plays a part in and disru
Aichele (retired, religion and philosophy, Adrian College, Michigan) explores the messages of the four Gospels, the reality they are conveying--that is, at a middle level between the actual words of t
Can the different pictures of Jesus in the New Testament be reconciled? Or are they simply simulations, the products of a virtual Gospel? Simulating Jesus argues that the gospels do not represent four
An inquiry into the nature of canon and how it influences ideology, culture, the interpretation and meaning of texts, and how it both reveals and conceals texts from its readers.
[W]hen they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost (phantasma), and cried out; for they all saw him, and were terrified (Mark 6:49, RSV) Thereis a growing awareness among biblical sch
This Guide surveys the more important historical, socio-cultural, theological, and literary factors we must grapple with in understanding the two letters of Jude and Second Peter, between which ther
The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating?but often bewildering?new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspect
