Full Description
The purpose of this volume is to honor the work of Edgar Conrad; it is therefore a festschrift. The essays focus on various aspects of Conrads work, especially the prophetic literature, the Bible as literature, canonical issues, and engaged readings. In developing these lines of scholarship, the authors pay tribute to Conrad and seek to take his work further. The contributions from Korean scholars are especially noteworthy, since Conrad has had significant influence on Korean biblical scholarship through students who studied under him at the University of Queensland.
Contents
Introduction; Reading Prophets; 1. "I am no prophet!": The Making of Amos - Philip Davies; 2. Filling the Gaps and Putting Huldah to Use - Judith McKinlay; 3. Paradoxes of Prophetic Language in Isaiah - Francis Landy; 4. Cyrus as a Pivotal Character in Understanding the Book of Isaiah as a Whole - Man Soo Choe; 5. Isaiah Redivivus - Norman Habel; 6. The Reconceptualization of the Davidic Covenant in the Books of Jeremiah - Marvin A. Sweeney Reading Literarily; 7. Literality, Metaphor and Intertextuality in Genesis 2 - Johnson Lim; 8. The Anomaly of Interpretation - Roland Boer; 9. Ezra's 'Lost Manuscripts': Narrative Context and Rhetorical Function - Katie Stott; Reading the Canon; 10. The Signifier's Body: Semiotics, Theology, and the Bible - George Aichele; 11. In the Midst of a Hermeneutical Conflict: The Canonical Form or Imagination? - Jang Se-Hoon; Engaged Readings; 12. Hear Then the Parable of the Seed: Reading the Agrarian Parables of Matthew 13 Ecologically - Elaine Wainwright; 13. Getting to Know You: The Curious Convergence of Modern Anti-Homophobic Interpretations of Genesis 19:5 with that of John Calvin - Michael Carden; 14. A Woman is being Beaten and maybe She Likes It?: Approaching Song of Songs 5:2-7 - Julie Kelso; 15. First Peoples, Minority Critics: From Nineveh to Oceania, With Jonah - Jione Havea; 16. Biblical Justice: Recompence, Revenge and Restoration - Paul Morris.
