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The Book of Hiding

Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

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The Book of Hiding

Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

The Book of Hiding offers a fluent and erudite analysis of the parallels between the Bible and contemporary discussions of gender, ethnicity and social ambiguity. Beal focuses particularly on the traditionally marginalised book of Esther, in order to examine closely the categories of self and other in relation to religion, sexism, nationalism, and the ever-looming legacies and future possibilities of annihilation. Beal applies the critical tools of contemporary theorists, such as Cixous, Irigaray and Levinas, challenging widely held assumptions about the moral and life-affirming message of Scripture and even about the presence of God in the book of Esther. The Book of Hiding draws together a variety of different perspectives and disciplines, creating a unique space for dialogue raising new questions and reconsidering old assumptions, which is profoundly interesting and well-articulated.

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Psychology Press

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0415167809

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Religion and Its Monsters

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

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Religion and Its Monsters

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415925886

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9780415925884

The Rise and Fall of the Bible

The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

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The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

An acclaimed author takes readers back to early Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has created Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Bible's sacred capital.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0151013586

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Roadside Religion

In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

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Roadside Religion

In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

In the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty-nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World's Largest Ten Commandments, Golgotha Fun Park, and Precious Moments Chapel. Why, he wanted to know, would someone use miniature golf to tell the story of the Creation? Or build a life-size replica of Noah's ark in Maryland? As a scholar, Beal hoped to come to understand the meaning of these places as expressions of religious imagination and experience. But as someone who had grown up in an evangelical Christian church in which he no longer rested comfortably, Beal found himself driven by a desire to venture beyond the borders of his cynicism to encounter faith in all its awesome absurdity. And so he found himself deep in conversation with people like Bill Rice, whose Cross Garden features thousands of makeshift crosses and old air conditioners bearing the message NO ICE WATER IN HELL! FIRE HOT! Part travel narrative, part religious study, and part search for the divine madness that is faith, Roadside Religion takes the reader on a tour of the strange and often wondrous ways people have tried to give outward form to their inner religious experiences. Religion is most interesting-and most revealing-Beal shows us, where it's least expected.

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Beacon Press

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0807010626

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9780807010624

Theory for Religious Studies

By: William E. Deal,Timothy Kandler Beal

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Theory for Religious Studies

By: William E. Deal,Timothy Kandler Beal

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415966388

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Religion and Its Monsters

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The Book of Hiding

Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther

By: Timothy K. Beal

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Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther

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1134704739

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Berit Olam: Ruth and Esther

By: Tod Linafelt,Timothy K. Beal

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Berit Olam: Ruth and Esther

By: Tod Linafelt,Timothy K. Beal

Some ancient works of literature survive in fragments that appear so simple and complete it's hard to imagine them as being part of a larger narrative. Such is the case with Ruth and Esther. On first reading they appear so simple, so whole, and their meanings so completely self-evident. Yet the closer you look, the more perplexing they become. Ruth and Esther offers that close look, enabling readers to discover the uncertainties of the texts and demonstrating how these uncertainties are not problems to be solved, but rather are integral to the narrative art of these texts. In Ruth, the first part of this volume, Tod Linafelt highlights the most unresolved and perplexing aspects of Ruth. In doing so he offers an interpretation he calls "unsettling." Linafelt states that it is unsettling in the sense that he often refuses to "settle" on a single, unequivocal meaning of a particular word, phrase, or theme. Rather he prefers to underscore the dual or even multiple meanings that the narrative so often has. Another way Ruth differs from other interpretations is that Linafelt entertains the possibility that there might be complexity or ambiguity with regard to the various characters' motivations, the presentation of God, or the book's purpose. In this commentary, Linafelt explores the ambiguities of meaning built into the grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of the story to discover how these ambiguities carry over to the larger interpretive issues of characterization, theology, and purpose. He also lays forth an argument that the book of Ruth is intended to be read as an interlude between Judges and Samuel. The second part of this volume focuses on Esther, a story of anti-Judaism that raises strikingly contemporary questions concerning relations between sexism, ethnocentrism, and national identity. In Esther Timothy Beal guides readers into the meaning of the story using rhetorical criticism. He asks questions without assuming that there must be answers and allows for complexity, perplexity, and the importance of accidents in the text. In essence, Beal emphasizes the particular over the general and the tentative over the continuous; however, he does not altogether dismiss the importance of broader interpretations of Esther, especially those focusing on narrative structure.

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Liturgical Press

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The Rise and Fall of the Bible

The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

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The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

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Theory for Religious Studies

By: William E. Deal,Timothy Kandler Beal

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Theory for Religious Studies' takes major theoretical writers in the humanities & social sciences, & explains their relevance to the study of religion.

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0415966396

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Religion in America

A Very Short Introduction

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

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Religion in America

A Very Short Introduction

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

It's hard to think of a single aspect of American culture, past or present, in which religion has not played a major role. The roles religion plays, moreover, become more bewilderingly complex and diverse every day. For all those who want--whether out of curiosity, necessity, or civic duty--a vivid picture and fuller understanding of the current reality of religion in America, this Very Short Introduction is the go-to book they need. Timothy Beal describes many aspects of religion in contemporary America that are typically ignored in other books on the subject, including religion in popular cu.

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0199365598

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Roadside Religion

In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith

By: Timothy Kandler Beal

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In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith

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Book's by Timothy Kandler Beal

The Book of Hiding

The Book of Hiding

Religion and Its Monsters

Religion and Its Monsters

The Rise and Fall of the Bible

The Rise and Fall of the Bible

Roadside Religion

Roadside Religion

Theory for Religious Studies

Theory for Religious Studies

Religion and Its Monsters

Religion and Its Monsters

The Book of Hiding

The Book of Hiding

Berit Olam: Ruth and Esther

Berit Olam: Ruth and Esther

The Rise and Fall of the Bible

The Rise and Fall of the Bible

Theory for Religious Studies

Theory for Religious Studies

Religion in America

Religion in America

Roadside Religion

Roadside Religion

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