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Chapter Title: Front Matter

Book Title: The Postmodern Bible

Book Subtitle: The Bible and Culture Collective
Book Author(s): George Aichele, Fred W. Burnett, Robert M. Fowler, David Jobling, Tina
Pippin and Wilhelm Wuellner
Book Editor(s): Elizabeth A. Castelli, Stephen D. Moore, Gary A. Phillips, Regina M.
Schwartz
Published by: Yale University Press. (1995)
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THE BIBLE AND CULTURE COLLECTIVE

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 THE BIBLE AND CULTURE COLLECTIVE

The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and

cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led

to stimulating-but often bewildering-new read-

ings of the Bible. This book, argued from a per-

spective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an

accessible guide to and an engagement with vari-

ous methods, theories, and critical practices trans-

forming biblical scholarship today.

Written by a collective of culling-edge scholars-

with each page the work of multiple hands-The

Postmodern Bible deliberately breaks with the in-

dividualist model of authorship that has tradition-

ally dominated scholarship in the humanities and

is itself an illustration of the postmodern transfor-

mation of biblical studies for which it argues.

chc The book introduces , illustrates, and critiques seven

prominent strategies of reading. Several of these

interpretive strategies-rhetori cal criticism , structur-

alism and narratology, reader-response criticism,

and feminist criticism-have been instrumental in

the transformation of biblical studies up to now.

Many-feminist and womanist criticism , ideologi-

cal criticism , poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic

criticism-hold promise for the continued transfor-

mation of these studies in the future . Focusing on

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 The Bible and Culture Collective:
George Aichele
Fred W. Burnett
Elizabeth A. Castelli, editor
Robert M. Fowler
David Job ling
Stephen D. Moore, editor
Gary A. Phillips, editor
Tina Pippin
Regina M. Schwartz, editor
Wilhelm Wuellner

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 Copyright© 1995 by Yale University.
All rights reserved.
This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including
illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections
107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the
public press), without written permission from the publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The postmodern Bible I the Bible and Culture Collective ; George
Aichele ... [et al.].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-300-06090-4
1. Bible-Hermeneutics. 2. Postmodernism. 3. Bible-Criticism,
interpretation, etc.-History-20th century. I. Aichele, George.
11. Bible and Culture Collective.
BS476.P67 1995
220.6'01-dc20 94-29748
CIP

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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 Nine of us wish to dedicate our collaborative effort in this
volume to the tenth member of our collective, Wilhelm
Wuellner, on the occasion of his retirement from a long
and productive career of teaching and scholarship. We have
benefited enormously from his careful critique and per-
sonal integrity. Wilhelm's ready humor, willingness to risk,
and commitment to collaborative process inspires us and
gives us hope.

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