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Strange fire : reading the Bible after the Holocaust / edited by Tod Linafelt.

Contributor(s): Linafelt, Tod, 1965-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Biblical seminar: 71.Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, 2000Description: 304 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1841270970Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence | Bible. Old Testament -- Hermeneutics | Suffering -- Biblical teachingDDC classification: 220.601 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Local Note: Editor is alumnus of Columbia Theological Seminary.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
Matters of survival: a conversation / Elie Wiesel and Timothy K. Beal -- Rupture and context: the ethical dimensions of a post-Holocaust biblical hermeneutics / Christ Boesel -- Rabbinic Bible interpretation after the Holocaust / B. Barry Levy -- A fissure always uncontained / Walter Brueggemann -- The Hebrew Bible in the framework of Christian-Jewish relations in post-Holocaust Germany / Rolf Rendtorff -- Of faith and faces: biblical texts, Holocaust testimony and German 'after Auschwitz' theology / Bjorn Krondorfer -- Beyond totality: the Shoah and the biblical ethics of Emmanuel Levinas / O.E. Ajzenstat -- Edmond Jabes and the question of death / Matthew del Nevo -- Avraham, Emil and Andre: re-reading Avraham's monologue with the divine in light of Fackenheim and Neher / Steven L. Jacobs -- Banality and sacrifice / Roland Boer -- Written in stone: biblical quotation in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Jennifer L. Koosed -- Am I a murderer? Judges 19-21 as a parable of meaningless suffering / Katharina von Kellenbach -- 'Isaiah 'twas foretold it': helping the Church interpret the prophets / Patricial K. Tull -- Isaiah and theodicy after the Shoah / Marvin A. Sweeney -- The covenant with death / Francis Landy -- Job and Auschwitz / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Job and post-Holocaust theodicy / Stephen Kepnes -- Zion's cause: the presentation of pain in the book of Lamentations / Tod Linafelt -- Death as the beginning of life in the book of Ecclesiastes / Mark K. George.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Matters of survival: a conversation / Elie Wiesel and Timothy K. Beal -- Rupture and context: the ethical dimensions of a post-Holocaust biblical hermeneutics / Christ Boesel -- Rabbinic Bible interpretation after the Holocaust / B. Barry Levy -- A fissure always uncontained / Walter Brueggemann -- The Hebrew Bible in the framework of Christian-Jewish relations in post-Holocaust Germany / Rolf Rendtorff -- Of faith and faces: biblical texts, Holocaust testimony and German 'after Auschwitz' theology / Bjorn Krondorfer -- Beyond totality: the Shoah and the biblical ethics of Emmanuel Levinas / O.E. Ajzenstat -- Edmond Jabes and the question of death / Matthew del Nevo -- Avraham, Emil and Andre: re-reading Avraham's monologue with the divine in light of Fackenheim and Neher / Steven L. Jacobs -- Banality and sacrifice / Roland Boer -- Written in stone: biblical quotation in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Jennifer L. Koosed -- Am I a murderer? Judges 19-21 as a parable of meaningless suffering / Katharina von Kellenbach -- 'Isaiah 'twas foretold it': helping the Church interpret the prophets / Patricial K. Tull -- Isaiah and theodicy after the Shoah / Marvin A. Sweeney -- The covenant with death / Francis Landy -- Job and Auschwitz / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Job and post-Holocaust theodicy / Stephen Kepnes -- Zion's cause: the presentation of pain in the book of Lamentations / Tod Linafelt -- Death as the beginning of life in the book of Ecclesiastes / Mark K. George.

Editor is alumnus of Columbia Theological Seminary.

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