Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust, edited by Tod Linafelt.
Description
Matters of survival : a conversation / Elie Weisel, Timothy K. Beal -- Rupture and context : the ethical dimensions of a post-Holocaust Biblical hermeneutics / Chris Boesel -- Rabbinic Bible interpretation after the Holocaust / B. Barry Levy -- A fissure always uncontained / Walter Brueggemann -- The Hebrew Bible in the framework of Christian-Jewish relations in post-Holocaust Germany / Rolf Rendtorff -- Of faith and faces : Biblical texts, Holocaust testimony and German 'after Auschwitz' theology / Bj{uml}orn Krondorfer -- Beyond totality : the Shoah and the Biblical ethics of Emmanuel Levinas / O.E. Ajzenstat -- Edmond Jab{grave}es and the question of death / Matthew del Nevo -- Avraham, Emil and Andre : re-reading Avraham's Monologue with the divine in light of Fackenheim and Neher / Steven L. Jacobs -- Banality and sacrifice / Roland Boer -- Written in stone : Biblical quotation in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Jennifer L. Koosed -- Am I a murderer? Judges 19-21 as a parable of meaningless suffering / Katharina von Kellenbach -- 'Isaiah 'twas foretold it' : helping the church interpret the prophets / Patricia K. Tull -- Isaiah and theodicy after the Shoah / Marvin A. Sweeney -- The covenant with death / Francis Landy -- Job and Auschwitz / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Job and post-Holocaust theodicy / Stephen Kepnes -- Zion's cause : the presentation of pain in the Book of Lamentations / Tod Linafelt -- Death as a beginning of life in the Book of Ecclesiastes / Mark K. George.
304 p. ;24 cm.