The Bible and posthumanism /

The Bible and posthumanism / edited by Jennifer L. Koosed. - 1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : illustrations. - Society of Biblical Literature. Semeia studies ; Number 74. . - Semeia studies ; no. 74. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

""Contents""; ""Part 1: Beginnings ""; ""Humanity at Its Limits""; ""Beastly Questions and Biblical Blame""; ""Hauntology Meets Posthumanism: Some Payoffs for Biblical Studies""; ""Part 2: Lions ""; ""The Lion King: Yahweh as Sovereign Beast in Israel�����?s Imaginary ""; ""Wittgenstein�����?s Lion and Balaam�����?s Ass: Talking with Others in Numbers 22�����?25""; ""Part 3: Bodies in Crisis ""; ""Sick with Love: The Musical Symptoms of a Shtetl-Bound Shulammite in Waszinski�����?s Dybbuk""; ""Voluptuous, Tortured, and Unmanned: Ezekiel with Daniel Paul Schreber"" ""The Prosthetic Friend, or Posthumanity in Lars and the Real Girl""""Part 4: Fathers ""; ""Tripartite Anthropologies and the Limits of the Human in Valentinian Christian Creation Myths""; ""Gregory of Nyssa and Jacques Derrida on the Human-Animal Distinction in the Song of Songs""; ""Part 5: Sacrifice ""; ""What Would Jesus Eat? Ethical Vegetarianism in Nascent Christianity""; ""Cutting up Life: Sacrifice as a Device for Clarifying�����?and Tormenting�����?Fundamental Distinctions between Human, Animal, and Divine""; ""Part 6: Endings "" ""Ruminations on Revelation�����?s Ruminant, Quadrupedal Christ or, the Even-Toed Ungulate That Therefore I Am""; ""Conclusion""; ""Contributors""; ""Index of Ancient Sources""; ""Index of Authors""


Available electronically via the Internet.

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