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<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>There is a twin focus in this volume. The title of a keynote essay-'Why Is There a Song of Songs and What Does It Do to You If You Read It?'-hints at it. The focus is equally on the ideologies of the writers of the Hebrew Bible who brought the text into being and on the ideologies of its readers who are being shaped by the text at the same moment that they are shaping it in their own image.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Uncovering the ideologies of writers are readers is the project of this book calling for a step beyond the usual scholarly goal of understanding-to a practice of the art of critique.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Among the other chapters in this challenging book are:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> • The Ten Commandments: Reading from Left to Right</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> • Metacommentating Amos</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> • Haggai's Temple Constructed Deconstructed and Reconstructed</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> • David the Man: The Construction of Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> • Psalm 2 and the MLF (Moabite Liberation Front)</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> • God in the Pentateuch: Reading against the Grain</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This is a reprint of the original 1995 edition with a new cover only.</span></p>