Troubling Topics, Sacred Texts: Readings in Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Troubling Topics, Sacred Texts

Readings in Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an

Edited by: Roberta Sterman Sabbath

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650617

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About this book

Abrahamic scriptures serve as cultural pharmakon, prescribing what can act as both poison and remedy. This collection shows that their sometimes veiled but eternally powerful polemics can both destroy and build, exclude and include, and serve as the ultimate justification for cruelty or compassion.

Here, scholars not only excavate these works for their formative and continuing cultural impact on communities, identities, and belief systems, they select some of the most troubling topics that global communities continue to navigate.　Their analysis of both texts and their reception help explain how these texts promote norms and build collective identities.

Rejecting the notion of the sacred realm as separate from the mundane realm and beyond critical challenge, this collection argues—both implicitly and sometimes transparently—for the presence of the sacred within everyday life and open to challenge. The very rituals, prayers, and traditions that are deemed sacred interweave into our cultural systems in infinite ways. Together, these authors explore the dynamic nature of everyday life and the often-brutal power of these texts over everyday meaning.

Author / Editor information

Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Previous Publications Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Roberta Sabbath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Gender & Sexuality
Introduction to Gender & Sexuality Monique Moultrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Destabilizing Gender, Reproducing Maternity: Mary In The Qurʾān Kecia Ali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Same-Sex Desire and Theological Anthropology in the New Testament: The Case of Romans 1:18–32 Benjamin H. Dunning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Unexpected Roles: Examining Ancient Gender Construction in the Joseph Narrative Nicholaus Pumphrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Part II: Body & Appearance
Introduction to Body & Appearance Marvin A. Sweeney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Disability and Advocacy in the Book of Job Andrew R. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
The Contradictory/Complementary Roles of Clothing in the Qurʾān: Grace, Metaphors, Morals, and Fashion Hadas Hirsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
“Wast Naked” A Biblical Scruple William Thomas McBride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Part III: Women & Feminism
Introduction to Women & Feminism Tammi J. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Intertextuality Sheds Light on the Text of Judges 19, the Concubine of Gilead: The Case of Genesis 24 Naomi Graetz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Women and Guile in the Qurʾān and Tafsīr: A Close Study of Verse Q12:28 Taira Amin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Two-Faced and of Two Minds: A Jewish Feminist Reading the Rabbis Reading the Creation of Humanity Gail Labovitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Embracing Female Submission to Exercise Maternal Authority: How Biblical Literalism Fueled White Evangelical Women’s Anti-Civil Rights Activism Tammy Heise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
The Reality of Female Despondency in the Book of Esther Mariah Q. Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Part IV: Death & Mourning
Introduction to Death & Mourning J. Richard Middleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
The ʿAḳedah, Binding of Isaac, and Shoah Enigmas Zev Garber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
The Language of Lament: Unlocking the Potentials of Biblical Despair Sarah Katerina Corrigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Death and Dying in the Qurʾan Walid Ahmad Saleh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
The Book of Job and Romantic Theodicy Kathleen Lundeen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Suicide and Compassion in Judaic Writings Roberta Sabbath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Part V: Life & Humor
Introduction to Life & Humor Ash Geissinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Divine immanence and the realized liturgical eschatological vision in sūrat al-Fatḥ (Q 48) Mourad Takawi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Excess and Deficiency: Troubling Over Wealth and Discipleship in Luke-Acts Kerry Danner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
“Cursed be Haman?”: Haman as a Victim in the 14th Century Parody Massekheth Purim Roni Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Ethnicity, Miracle, and Lepers in Luke: Inner Texture Analysis Of Luke 17:11–19 Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
Figurations of the Hierarchy for Life and Death in the Letters of Paul Leonardo D’Avila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517
Part VI: Crime & Punishment
Introduction to Crime & Disobedience Emran El-Badawi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
The Impact of Crime on Communities: A Conversation Between Biblical and Rabbinic Sources Sophia Avants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
Hagioprepēs: The Rationalizing of Saintly Sin and Atrocities Darren M. Slade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	565
“Let Every Person Be Subject”: The Reception of Romans 13 in Modern Biblical Studies and Theology David M. Barbee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599
(Letaʿarafu لتعا رفو(ا , “ That you may Know one Another”: The Qurʾan as an Intertext in the Works of Mohja Kahf Magda Hasabelnaby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	625
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	649
Index of Scriptures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	657
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	675

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, students, and institutes of Biblical studies, the Quran, and textual reception.
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 706
Illustrations
- Tables: 18
Keywords: Hebrew Bible; New Testament; Qur'an; intertextuality

eBook

Published: October 4, 2021
ISBN: 9783110650617

Hardcover

Published: October 4, 2021
ISBN: 9783110634266