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The essays explore how religious, political and cultural identities, including ethnicity and gender, are embodied in biblical discourse. Following the authors, we read the Bible with new eyes: as a critic of gender, ideology, politics and culture. We ask ourselves new questions: about God's body, about women's role, about racial prejudices and about the politics of the written word. Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies crosses boundaries. It questions our most fundamental assumptions about the Bible. It shows how biblical studies can benefit from the mainstream of Western intellectual discourse, throwing up entirely new questions and offering surprising answers. Tim Beal, Eckard College, St. Peterburg, Florida; Danna Nolan Fewell, David M. Gunn, Texas Christian University; Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, Athalya Bremmer, Ilona N

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... Tim Beal and David Gunn have edited a fine collection, highly recommended for all with interest in the promising new directions of contemporary biblical studies. <br>-Harold C. Washington, Journal of the American Academy of Religion <br> Lamenting the sometimes insular guild of current biblical studies, this collection of sixteen essays helps to initiate the Biblical Limits series - designed to bring postmodern perspectives to the reading of familiar biblical texts OLD TESTAMENT ABSTRACTS. <br>1999 <br>

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Timothy K. Beal, David Gunn

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