An unsuitable book : the Bible as scandalous text / Hugh S. Pyper.
Series: Publication details: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005.Description: viii, 186 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1905148327 :
- Bible as scandalous text
- 220.68 22
- BS535 .P97 2005
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Dalton McCaughey Library | Level 1 | CG5 P997 | Available | 33865001129334 |
Includes bibliographic references (p. 169-181) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Selfish texts: the Bible and survival -- 3. Speaking silence: male readers, female readings and the Biblical text -- 4. Readers in pain: Muriel Spark and the book of Job -- 5. The Bible in bloom -- 6. Modern Gospels of Judas: Canon and betrayal -- 7. Reading Lamentations -- 8. The rebellious son: Biblical family values -- 9. Fleshing out the text: re-reading circumcision -- 10. What the Bible can do to a child: the metrical Psalms and the Gammage Cup -- 11. The Bible as wolf: tracking a carrollian metaphor.