Unwilling Feeling

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-151
Author(s):  
Karen Bray
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Story ◽  
Biblical Texts

Chapter four, “Unwilling Feeling,” reads John D. Caputo’s material theology and his conception of the insistence of God alongside Sara Ahmed’s work on what she names “affect aliens” and willfulness to offer biblical scenes of affect alien prophets. Jonah and Martha embody such moody prophecy in this scene. The chapter constructs and applies an affect hermeneutic to and with biblical texts in order to read for what might happen when we follow moodiness to unexpected theological conclusions. Jonah’s and Martha’s moodiness in their biblical tales reveal not what’s wrong with them, but rather serve as a lament against problematic theological interpretations and conscriptions of each character. These affect alien prophets exist as blockage; their existence stops up or slows down the normative flow. These biblical characters prophetically persist by remaining moody impediments to the story. To gravely attend to such prophets is to embrace alternate flows or undercurrents within the biblical story. Such an embrace invites us to look for alternate flows within our contemporary stories.

People of the Book? Responses to the Bible as ‘Big Story’ or ‘Drama’

2018 ◽  
Vol 130 (8) ◽  
pp. 337-344
Author(s):  
Cherryl Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts

Over recent decades there have been voices calling for a greater focus on communicating the Bible’s ‘big story’, metanarrative, or ‘drama’ to ordinary Christians. It has been suggested that this will enable deeper engagement with the biblical texts, better interpretation and more adequate application including effective mission. To this end, a number of resources have been devised as vehicles by which the biblical story may be told. This paper examines responses to two of these resources, as they were used in small groups across a number of denominations and presents some suggestions for how to shape and deliver any such programme within churches.

Metaphor As A Stylistic Feature In Biblical Texts Of Retribution

2018 ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Saja AbdulAmeer ◽  
Riyadh Tariq Kadhim Al-Ameedi
Keyword(s):  
Stylistic Feature ◽  
Biblical Texts

Continuidades y discontinuidades en la traducción de las locuciones prepositivas en los romanceamientos bíblicos medievales

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Viorica Codita
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
General Estoria

"Continuities and Discontinuities in the Translations of Prepositional Phrases in Medieval Biblical Texts. In this work we present an analysis of prepositional phrases in two contemporary translations, Biblia prealfonsí and the biblical part of General Estoria 4, on the basis of the Book of Ecclesiasticus. The aim of this study is to describe the state of variation of prepositional phrases in 13th century, delineating the similarities and divergences of solutions, and also to try to elucidate how much interferes the original Latin text, Vulgata, in the use of the prepositional phrases.

Carnal Knowledge: How Performance Criticism can Provide Insights into Biblical Women

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Radosevic
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
Performance Criticism ◽  
Left Brain ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Biblical Women

Biblical Performance Criticism, among other things, relies on how a biblical story is embodied and, as a result, viscerally experienced by the performer as a means for gaining a better understanding of how to more fully comprehend and appreciate, and then potentially interpret with more accurate integrity, the biblical narratives. This process goes way beyond the left-brain intellect, permeating the very physiology of the teller in a way that provides a more multidimensional grasp of scripture, giving insights that perhaps could not be gleaned in any other way. This article, written by a woman, specifically focuses on how the stories of certain biblical women took on more profound meaning when embodied, experienced, and understood through the unique reality of females throughout the past few millennia.

ECOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE JONAH NARRATIVE – HAVE THEY SUCCEEDED IN OVERCOMING ANTHROPOCENTRISM?

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willie Van Heerden
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Relationship

A central concern of ecological biblical hermeneutics is to overcome the anthropocentric bias we are likely to find both in interpretations of the biblical texts and in the biblical text itself. One of the consequences of anthropocentrism has been described as a sense of distance, separation, and otherness in the relationship between humans and other members of the Earth community. This article is an attempt to determine whether extant ecological interpretations of the Jonah narrative have successfully addressed this sense of estrangement. The article focuses on the work of Ernst M. Conradie (2005), Raymond F. Person (2008), Yael Shemesh (2010), Brent A. Strawn (2012), and Phyllis Trible (1994, 1996).

Justice and injustice in Christian liturgies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Cross

The chapter begins by briefly taking note of various ways in which Christian liturgical enactments are related to the doing of justice. Attention then turns to the fact that at the heart of the biblical story is an appalling case of the perversion of justice. Christians worship one who was unjustly crucified. The chapter employs The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by the African-American theologian James Cone, to bring to light some of the implications of this fact. Cone notes that Christ’s crucifixion is central in African-American preaching and hymnody, and that the pain and injustice of the crucifixion are highlighted rather than concealed because African-Americans identify with Jesus in his pain and as a victim of injustice. After noting that the pain and injustice of Christ’s crucifixion are veiled in most liturgies, the chapter concludes by asking whether they should not instead be highlighted.

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