Samuel, Kings And Chronicles, I: Texts@Contexts

✍ Scribed by Athalya Brenner-Idan; Archie C.C. Lee

• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Series: Texts @ Context
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As with previous Texts @ Contexts volumes, this title gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I sheds light from new perspectives on themes in these so-called historical books including Asian American and Chinese readings, issues of land, genealogy and maleness. The authors challenge us to consider how we deal with cultural distances between ourselves and these ancient writings - and between one another in the contemporary world.
Like other volumes in the Texts @ Contexts series, these essays de-centre the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open up new possibilities for discovery.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Series Preface: The Editors
Abbreviations
Introduction: Athalya Brenner-Idan
Part One: On Gender Relationships
Hearing Tamar's Voice-How The Margin Hears Differently: Contextual Readings of 2 Samuel 13.1-22
To Whom Do Jezebel's Remains Belong? Challenges For An 'Organic Exegete' Facing Contextual Readings Of 2 Kings 9.30-37
Coveting The Vineyard: An Asian American Reading of 1 Kings 21
Juridical Impotence In The Naboth Story In The Context Of Kenya's New Land Laws
Gendered Genealogies In Response To Fractured Pasts: Inquiring Processes Of Othering In 1 Chronicles 1-9 From A German Perspective
Male Royals And Their Ethnically Foreign Mothers: The Implications For Textual Politics
The Medium of En-Dor few n t o TW*) And The Phenomenon of Divination In Twenty-First Century Israel
The Medium Of En-Dor Heard Through The Medium of Music
Part Two: On Issues
Cross-Textual And Inter-Textual Readings of 1 Chronicles 16.8-36
Children in The Hebrew Bible And The Case Of Samuel: From Personal Experience To Analysis
Running in The Bible
Clothing, adornment and accouterments as cultural and literary slgnifiers in the'historical'books
Index of Scriptures
Index of Authors