04069nam a2200529Ka 4500 ocn810933201 OCoLC 20200709055553.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 120924s2012 nyu ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9781139549356 (electronic bk.) 1139549359 (electronic bk.) 9781107007864 1107007860 (OCoLC)810933201 473162 (N$T) BS533 .S35 2012eb BIB 000000 bisacsh REL 006160 bisacsh REL 006680 bisacsh 220.09 23 REL006210 bisacsh N$TA Sherwood, Yvonne. Biblical blaspheming [electronic resource] : trials of the sacred for a secular age / Yvonne Sherwood. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource. "This book explores the strange persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies by examining how accepted and prohibited ways of talking and thinking about the Bible and religion have changed over time. In a series of wide-ranging studies engaging disciplines such as politics, literature and visual theory, Yvonne Sherwood brings the Bible into dialogue with a host of interlocutors including John Locke, John Donne and the 9/11 hijackers, as well as artists such as Sarah Lucas and Rene; Magritte. Questions addressed include: [bullet] What is the origin of the common belief that the Bible, as opposed to the Qur'an, underpins liberal democratic values? [bullet] What kind of artworks does the biblical God specialise in? [bullet] If pre-modern Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to scripture can be more 'critical' than contemporary speech about religion, how does this affect our understanding of secularity, modernity and critique?"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: Preface; Part I. The Persistence of Blasphemy: 1. The persistence of blasphemy: the Bible as a public edifice in the secular state; Part II. Biblical Exhibitions/Biblical Exhibitionism: 2. The exquisite fruit-corpse and the surrealist works of God; 3. Prophetic scatology: prophecy and the art of sensation; Part III. Inappropriate Involvement in the Biblical Text: 4. A recently discovered letter from Isaac to Abraham (annotated); 5. Passion-binding-passion: sacrifice, masochism and the subject; Part IV. Beyond 'the Bible as Literature': 6. 'Not with a bang but a whimper': shrunken apocalypses in Ecclesiastes 12.1-8 and twentieth-century modernism; 7. The fear of loss inherent in writing: Jeremiah 36 as the tedious self-narration of a highly self-conscious scroll with Mark Brummitt; 8. John Donne and the Baroque prophets; Part V. Theo-politics, Authority and the Bible: 9. On the genesis of the alliance between the Bible and rights; 10. Binding-unbinding: pre-critical 'critique' in pre-modern Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to the 'sacrifice' of Abraham/Ibrahim's son. Description based on print version record. Bible Controversial literature. Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament bisacsh BIBLES / General bisacsh RELIGION / Biblical Reference / General bisacsh RELIGION / Biblical Reference / Handbooks bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Sherwood, Yvonne. Biblical blaspheming. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107007864 (DLC) 2012014482 (OCoLC)779264936 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=473162 Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/07864/cover/9781107007864.jpg EBSCOhost EBSC 473162 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51502 51502