Redirected Travel

Redirected Travel
Author: Roland Boer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567215598

What if biblical scholars traveled to the Antipodes for an international conference instead of to Europe or North America? The essays in this volume, originally written for such a conference, explore the implications for biblical studies of such a change in direction. In fact, they travel in a host of different directions, exploring the alternative journeys and places of biblical studies, developing connections in the rhizomatic fashion (as delineated famously by Deleuze and Guattari). The vehicles used in such travel include postcolonialism, feminism, Marxism, gay theory, semiotics, political theory and poststructuralism.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series, Volume 382.

Redirection

Redirection
Author: Beth Scott
Publisher: Beth Scott
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 173718530X

A friends-to-situationship new adult contemporary wholesome romance. Humor and hilarious situations, plus some ice hockey and bocce jargon, replace intimate scenes and profanity. The content is clean and appropriate for all ages, including young adults. Grant and Rebecca meet when Grant trades an ice hockey puck for a bocce ball. The twentysomething’s click instantly, but professional commitments interfere with their budding friendship. As their day-to-day lives diverge and they find themselves in a long distance relationship, can they redirect their attention back to what makes their connection special? Scroll up to buy this sweet and wholesome romance and start reading today! 65,000 word standalone HFN novel without triggers or cliffhangers. While the story’s content is clean, the book is not classified as Christian romance or Christian fiction since it does does not contain religious elements.

Are We Not Men?

Are We Not Men?
Author: Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2016-11-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190227370

Are We Not Men? offers an innovative approach to gender and embodiment in the Hebrew Bible, revealing the male body as a source of persistent difficulty for the Hebrew prophets. Drawing together key moments in prophetic embodiment, Graybill demonstrates that the prophetic body is a queer body, and its very instability makes possible new understandings of biblical masculinity. Prophecy disrupts the performance of masculinity and demands new ways of inhabiting the body and negotiating gender. Graybill explores prophetic masculinity through critical readings of a number of prophetic bodies, including Isaiah, Moses, Hosea, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. In addition to close readings of the biblical texts, this account engages with modern intertexts drawn from philosophy, psychoanalysis, and horror films: Isaiah meets the poetry of Anne Carson; Hosea is seen through the lens of possession films and feminist film theory; Jeremiah intersects with psychoanalytic discourses of hysteria; and Ezekiel encounters Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Graybill also offers a careful analysis of the body of Moses. Her methods highlight unexpected features of the biblical texts, and illuminate the peculiar intersections of masculinity, prophecy, and the body in and beyond the Hebrew Bible. This assembly of prophets, bodies, and readings makes clear that attending to prophecy and to prophetic masculinity is an important task for queer reading. Biblical prophecy engenders new forms of masculinity and embodiment; Are We Not Men?offers a valuable map of this still-uncharted terrain.

Patience—A Theological Exploration

Patience—A Theological Exploration
Author: Paul Dafydd Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2022-11-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567694402

What does it mean to exercise patience? What does it mean to endure, to wait, and to persevere-and, on other occasions, to reject patience in favor of resistance, haste, and disruptive action? And what might it mean to describe God as patient? Might patience play a leading role in a Christian account of God's creative work, God's relationship to ancient Israel, God's governance of history, and God's saving activity? The first instalment of Patience-A Theological Exploration engages these questions in searching, imaginative, and sometimes surprising ways. Following reflections on the biblical witness and the nature of constructive theological inquiry, its interpretative chapters engage landmark works by a number of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary authors, disclosing both the promise and peril of talk about patience. Patience stands at the center of this innovative account of God's creative work, God's relationship with ancient Israel, creaturely sin, scripture, and God's broader providential and salvific purposes.

The Hour of Dust and Ashes

The Hour of Dust and Ashes
Author: Kelly Gay
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451625499

To save her sister, she must stop a silent killer. . . . Protecting Atlanta from the off-world criminals of Underground is tough enough, but now Detective Charlie Madigan and her siren partner, Hank, learn that the addicts of the offworld drug ash have begun taking their own lives. Ash makes humans the perfect vessels for possession, and something or someone is leading them to their deaths. Charlie is desperate to save her addicted sister, Bryn, from a similar fate. As New Year’s Eve approaches and time runs out, Charlie makes a deadly bargain with an ancient race of beings and embarks on a dangerous journey into hellish Charbydon with Hank and the Revenant Rex to save Bryn and make it back before it’s too late. Only, for one of them, coming home means facing a fate worse then death. . . .

Apostle to the Conquered, paperback edition

Apostle to the Conquered, paperback edition
Author: Davina C. Lopez
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451406258

Apostle to the Conquered reveals the subversive heart of Paul's theology, reframing his "conversion" in terms of "consciousness," and his exhortations as a politics of the new creation.

Sodomy

Sodomy
Author: Michael Carden
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781904768302

Study of the reception of Genesis 19 with Judges 19-21 in both Christian and Jewish traditions from antiquity to the Reformation period.

Atomic Fossils

Atomic Fossils
Author: Stephen Dustin
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2000-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469799464

Atomic Fossils is a fast-paced thriller you wont be able to put down! The U.S. government covertly excavates the wreckage of a mysterious ancient aircraft, uncovering a baffling assortment of artifacts. Half a world away, nuclear war rages in the Middle East, drawing the U.S. and Russia closer to global confrontation with each passing hour. One man discovers a secret in the wreckagea secret so powerful it could avert the impending worldwide catastrophe. To reveal the secret, however, he must not only place his own life on the line, but also the lives of his family... and, there is no guarantee it will make any difference in the end.

Texts after Terror

Texts after Terror
Author: Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2021-04-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019008233X

Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible is filled with stories of rape, scholarly approaches to sexual violence in the scriptures remain exhausted, dated, and in some cases even un-feminist, lagging far behind contemporary discourse about sexual violence and rape culture. Graybill responds to this disconnect by engaging contemporary conversations about rape culture, sexual violence, and #MeToo, arguing that rape and sexual violence - both in the Bible and in contemporary culture - are frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky, and that we need to take these features seriously. Texts after Terror offers a new framework informed by contemporary conversations about sexual violence, writings by victims and survivors, and feminist, queer, and affect theory. In addition, Graybill offers significant new readings of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 34), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1-2), and the unnamed woman known as the Levite's concubine (Judges 19). Texts after Terror urges feminist biblical scholars and readers of all sorts to take seriously sexual violence and rape, while also holding space for new ways of reading these texts that go beyond terror, considering what might come after.