Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible (JSOT Supplement)

Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 9
1. Ideology......Page 10
2. Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible......Page 17
3. The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible......Page 19
4. Interested Parties......Page 24
1. Reading from Left to Right......Page 27
2. The Ten Commandments as Divine Law......Page 28
3. In Whose Interest Are the Ten Commandments?......Page 33
4. The Sabbath Commandment......Page 38
5. The Commandments about Worship......Page 41
6. The Social Commandments......Page 43
Conclusion......Page 45
1. The Temple Constructed......Page 47
1. Honour......Page 58
2. Undeanness......Page 59
3. Zerubbabel......Page 64
a. The Composition of the Text......Page 69
b. The Reception of the Text......Page 74
4 Metacommentating Amos......Page 77
1. Commentators and the Social Critique of Amos......Page 79
2. Commentators and the Religious Ideology of Amos......Page 85
a. The Prophetic Sense of Vocation......Page 86
c. Knowledge versus Belief......Page 88
d. The Contrast between 'True' and 'False' Prophets......Page 89
e. Punishment......Page 91
1. Why is There a Song of Songs?......Page 95
a. The Implied Circumstances of the Text's Production......Page 97
b. The Implied Psychological Profile of the Author......Page 103
a. The reception of the text by former readers......Page 108
b. The effects of the text on contemporary readers......Page 115
6 Why Is There a Book of Job, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It?......Page 123
a. The Implied Circumstances of the Text's Production......Page 124
b. The Implied Psychological Profile of the Author......Page 134
2. What Does It Do to You If You Read It?......Page 137
a. The Effects of the Text on Former Readers......Page 138
b. The Effects of the Text on its Modern Readers......Page 140
7 Job and the Spirituality of the Reformation......Page 146
1. The Figure of Job in Pre-Reformation Spirituality......Page 147
2. The Spirituality of the Late Middle Ages......Page 154
3. Job in the Spirituality of Luther......Page 157
4. Job in the Spirituality of Calvin......Page 163
5. Conclusion......Page 168
8 A World Established on Water (Psalm 24): Reader Response, Deconstruction and Bespoke Interpretation......Page 173
a. Holiness......Page 174
b. War......Page 176
2. A Deconstructive Critique......Page 177
3. Bespoke Interpretation......Page 179
a. Method......Page 188
b. The Pentateuch as a novel......Page 190
c. God as a character......Page 191
d. Reading with and against the grain......Page 192
e. The dialectic of the text......Page 193
a. God and Noah......Page 194
b. God and the exodus......Page 195
c. God and the plagues in Egypt......Page 196
d. God and the chosen people......Page 200
3. Unifying Readings......Page 202
4. Conclusions......Page 207
1. Being a Man in the Modern West......Page 213
2. Being a Man in the David Story......Page 216
1. The fighting male......Page 217
2. The persuasive male......Page 220
3. The beautiful male......Page 222
4. The bonding male......Page 224
5. The womanless male......Page 226
f. The musical male......Page 228
g. A Conflict of Masculinities?......Page 229
3. The Conflict of Masculinities: Ours and Theirs......Page 232
1. Approval......Page 235
2. Success......Page 236
3. Warfare......Page 238
4. Beauty......Page 240
5. Sex......Page 241
11 Psalm 2 and the MLF (Moabite Liberation Front)......Page 245
1. The World of the Text......Page 246
2. The Scholarly Tradition......Page 249
a. A Myopic Tendency......Page 250
b. A Moralizing/ Theologizing Tendency......Page 251
c. A Universalizing Tendency......Page 254
d. An Idealizing Tendency......Page 256
e. Softening the Contours......Page 258
f. Hardening the Edges......Page 263
g. Refusal to Draw the Implications of Ancient Near Eastern Parallels......Page 264
h. Sweeping Politics under the Aesthetic Rug......Page 266
i. The Inscription of Ideology in Modern Translations......Page 267
a. In the World of the Text......Page 269
b. In the World of the Commentator......Page 271
4. A Bible Readers' Liberation Movement......Page 273
Index of References......Page 277
C......Page 282
H......Page 283
O......Page 284
W......Page 285
Z......Page 286
B......Page 287
C......Page 288
E......Page 289
H......Page 290
J......Page 291
M......Page 292
P......Page 293
R......Page 294
S......Page 295
W......Page 296
Z......Page 297