The Bible in Theory

The sixteen essays assembled in this volume four of them co-authored chart the successive phases of a professional life lived in the interstices of Bible and theory. Engaging such texts as the Song of Songs 4 Maccabees Mark Luke-Acts John and Romans and such themes as the quest for the historical Jesus the essays simultaneously traverse postmodernism deconstruction New Historicism autobiographical criticism cultural studies postcolonial studies masculinity studies queer theory and posttheory. Individual essay introductions and periodic annotated bibliographies make the volume an advanced introduction to biblical literary criticism.