Inspired by and engaging with the provocative and prolific work of Stephen D. Moore, Bible and Theory showcases some of the most current thinking emerging at the intersections of critical methods with biblical texts. The result is a plurality of readings that deconstruct customary disciplinary boundaries. These chapters, written by a wide range of biblical scholars, collectively argue by demonstration for the necessity and benefits of biblical criticism inflected with queer theory, literary criticism, postmodernism, cultural studies, and more. Bible and Theory: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Stephen D. Moore invites the reader to rethink what constitutes the Bible and to reconsider what we are doing when we read and interpret it.
On Method(s)
1. Method Man K. Jason Coker and Scott S. Elliott
2. Allegoric Reaction: Revulsion, Desire, and Method in Interpretation A. K.
M. Adam
3. More Fragments from an Autobiographical Midrash on Johns Gospel Jeffrey
L. Staley
4. The Creative Non-Fiction of Biblical Scholar Stephen D. Moore H. Aram
Veeser
5. Stories Thrown Together George Aichele
On Text(s)
6. A Dead Spouse, A Vegetable Garden, a Cousins Field on Private Property,
and the Hebrew Bible
Roland Boer
7. Matthew, Mark, and Paul: The Vintage Sounds of the Implied Author Janice
Capel Anderson
8. Air Jesus: Fear of Flying in the Gospel of Mark Tina Pippin
9. When Hannah Met Luke: A Sub-Version of Lukes Annunciations Danna Nolan
Fewell
10. Its Just a Flesh Wound: On Reading the Tortured Body of the Johannine
Jesus Colleen M. Conway
11. Moore Materialism: Apocalypse, Animal Christs, and an Unlikely Absolute
Catherine Keller
12. Queer Mothers: The Gender Construction of Martyrs Jennifer L. Koosed and
Robert Paul Seesengood
On Reading(s)
13. What Am I Reading When I Read My Bible? Stephen D. Moore
K. Jason Coker is the national director for Together for Hope and the author of James in Postcolonial Perspective: The Letter as Nativist Discourse, along with other articles, chapters, and blogs on poverty, race, and critical theory.
Scott S. Elliott is associate professor in the department of Philosophy, Religion, and Leadership at Adrian College.
