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Title Bible, borders, belonging(s) : engaging readings from Oceania / edited by Jione Havea, David J. Neville, Elaine M. Wainwright
Published Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2014]
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Series Semeia studies ; Number 75
Semeia studies ; no. 75.
Contents Engaging scriptures from Oceania / Jione Havea -- "Save us! We are perishing!" : reading Matthew 8:23-27 in the face of devastating floods / Elaine M. Wainwright -- Calamity and the biblical God : borderline or line of belonging? : intratextual tension in Luke 13 / David J. Neville -- On the crossroads between life and death : reading birth imagery in John in the earthquake-changed regions of Otautahi Christchurch / Kathleen P. Rushton -- The prologue of John : bridge into a new world / John Painter -- Jewish readings of the Fourth Gospel : beyond the pale? / Ruth Sheridan -- Mapping the boundaries of belonging : another look at Jacob's story / Merilyn Clark -- Slipping across borders and bordering on conquest : a contrapuntal reading of Numbers 13 / Judith E. McKinlay -- Border crossing/body whoring : rereading Rahab of Jericho with native women / Nāsili Vaka'uta -- Deuteronomy 30 : faithfulness in the refugee camps of Moab, Babylonia, and beyond / Jeanette Mathews -- Reading Rizpah across borders, cultures, belongings, to India and back / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon -- Borderless discipleship : the Syrophoenician woman as a Christ-follower in Mark 7:24-30 / Jeffrey W. Aernie -- Bare feet welcome : Redeemer Xs Moses @ Enaim / Jione Havea -- The sign of Jonah : reading Jonah on the boundaries and from the boundaries / Gregory C. Jenks -- Gospel maps : intersections of life / Michele A. Connolly -- Breaking Bible boundaries / David M. Gunn -- Bordering on redemption / Mark G. Brett
Summary Events in Oceania - earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, shipwrecks, oil spills, movement of political and ecological refugees, resettlement of displaced people, and changing political structures - challenge the authors to reflect on the practices of biblical interpretation and to consequently reread biblical texts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Oceania
Bible fast
Bibel gnd
Subject Christianity -- Oceania
Christian life -- Oceania
BIBLES -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Exegesis & Hermeneutics.
Christian life
Christianity
Ecology
Social conditions
Exegese
SUBJECT Oceania -- Social conditions
Oceania -- Environmental conditions
Subject Oceania
Ozeanien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Havea, Jione, 1965- editor.
Neville, David J., editor
Wainwright, Elaine M., editor
ISBN 9781589839571
1589839579
9781306582063
1306582067