Yale University Press

Chapter Title: Table of Contents

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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 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xi

INTRODUCTION 1
Toward Transforming Readings of the Bible, 1 •
Postmodernism, 8 • Postmodernism and Biblical
Studies, 12 • The Bible and Culture Collective, 15

READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM 20
Reading the Feeding Stories in Mark, 20 • Mapping
Reader-Response Criticism, 24 • Critiquing the Critic as
Reader, 38 • The Future of Reading, 51

~ STRUCTURALIST AND NARRATOLOGICAL CRITICISM 70

Readings of Biblical Narratives, 71 • Surveying the
Field, 76 • A Critique of Structuralism, 95 • Looking to
the Future, 110

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~ POSTSTRUCTURALIST CRITICISM 119
Deconstruction and Derrida, 119 • Biblical Poststruc-
turalism, 125 • Deconstruction and Reading, 128 •
Scriptural A/theology, 135 • Foucault and His-
tory, 138 • Reading the Future, 145

~ RHETORICAL CRITICISM 149

Reading 1 Corinthians, 150 • The Emergence of
the New Rhetoric, 156 • A Critical View of the New
Rhetoric, 162 • Rhetoric and Religion, 168 • The
New Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible, 171 • Reread-
ing 1 Corinthians, 178 • The Future of Rhetorical
Criticism, 183

~ PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM 187

Freud as Religionist and Biblical Scholar, 187 •
Lacan as Midrashist, Biblical Scholar, and Theolo-
gian, 196 • Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Kristeva and
Irigaray, 211 • Looking to the Future, 222

~ FEMINIST AND WOMANIST CRITICISM 225

Exemplary Biblical Readings, 226 • Feminism, Woman-
ism, and the Politics of Interpretation, 234 • History and
Practice of Feminist and Womanist Readings, 244 • The
Future of Feminist and Womanist Readings, 267

1 IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM 272

Defining Ideology and Ideological Criticism, 2 72 •
Ideological Criticism and the Bible: Cracking the
Singular Voice, 277 • The Ideological Stances of Lib-
eration Hermeneutics, 280 • Decolonizing Exodus
and Conquest: Readings in Tension, 282 • Mark and
Materialism: Readings in Tension, 293 • The Discourses
of Resistance, 301

POSTSCRIPT 309

BIBLIOGRAPHY 311

INDEX 383

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