Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
An edition of Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (2014)
Second Edition
By Roland Boer
Publish Date
2014
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Language
eng
Pages
317
Description:
The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukacs, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts.