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Abraham's Obedience
Abraham’s Obedience
ancient Near East studies
Atrahasis Epic
Author_Mark G. Brett
biblical identity politics
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community formation theory
Creation Story
divine
Divine Council
Divine Exhortation
Divine Promises
Divine Speech
El Elyon
El Shaddai
endogamous
Endogamous Marriage
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Father's House
Father’s House
Foreign Marriage
genealogical
Genealogical Exclusivism
Genealogical Superiority
Hittite Women
holy
Holy Seed
imperial power dynamics
Intentional Hybridity
Jacob's Sons
Jacob’s Sons
Joseph Story
Joseph's Dream
Joseph's Hands
Joseph’s Dream
Joseph’s Hands
marriages
Miroslav Volf
Painful Toil
period
persian
Persian Period
Persian period biblical interpretation
postcolonial biblical criticism
promise
resistance literature analysis
seed
superiority
Yahweh Elohim
Product details
- ISBN 9780415141505
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Combining insights from social and literary theory as well as traditional historical studies, Mark Brett argues that the first book of the Bible can be read as resistance literature.
Placing the theological text firmly within its socio-political context, he shows that the editors of Genesis were directly engaged with contemporary issues, especially the nature of an authentic community, and that the book was designed to undermine the ethnocentism of the imperial governors of the Persian period (fifth century BCE).
Mark G. Brett is Professor of Old Testament at Whitley College, Melbourne. He is the editor of Ethnicity and the Bible (1996) and the author of Biblical Criticism in Crisis (1991).
