Universalism and particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah : essays in memory of Ron Pirson /

This book reexamines the Sodom and Gomorrah narrative in Genesis 18-19, an ethically charged text that has significantly influenced views about homosexuality, stereotyping the other, the rewards and risks of hospitality, and the justice owed to outsiders. Its twelve essays, reflecting their authors&...

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Gespeichert in:
Hauptverfasser:
Lipton, Diana., Pirson, Ron.
Weitere Verfasser:
Lipton, Diana, Pirson, Ron
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Mehrsprachig
Veröffentlicht:
Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2012.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
This book reexamines the Sodom and Gomorrah narrative in Genesis 18-19, an ethically charged text that has significantly influenced views about homosexuality, stereotyping the other, the rewards and risks of hospitality, and the justice owed to outsiders. Its twelve essays, reflecting their authors' considerable geographical, religious, methodological, and academic diversity, explore this troubling text through the lens of universalism and particularism. Biblical Sodom is read as the site of multiple borders--fluid, porous, and bi-directional--between similar and different, men and angels, men and women, fathers and daughters, insiders and outsiders, hosts and guests, residents and aliens, chosen and nonchosen, and people and God. Readers of these exegetically and theologically attentive essays published in memory of Ron Pirson will experience a rare sense of an ancient text being read in and for the modern world. The contributors are Calum Carmichael, Diana Lipton, William John Lyons, Nathan MacDonald, Amira Meir, Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg, T. A. Perry, Ron Pirson, Jonathan D. Safren, Megan Warner, Harlan J. Wechsler, and Ellen J. van Wolde.
Umfang:
1 online resource (253 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
Multiple languages
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schriftenreihe:
Society of Biblical Literature ancient Israel and its literature ;
ISBN:
9781589836518
1589836510
Schlagworte:
Bible. > Genesis XVIII-XIX > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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