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  • Tony Wilmot Memorial Library

Marxist criticism of the Bible /

Boer, Roland, 1961-

Marxist criticism of the Bible / Roland Boer. - London : New York : T & T Clark International, c2003. - xii, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and indexes.

Introduction : why Marxist theory? -- Louis Althusser : the difficult birth of Israel in Genesis -- Antonio Gramsci : the emergence of the 'prince' in Exodus -- Terry Eagleton: the class struggles of Ruth -- Henri Lefebvre : the production of space in 1 Samuel -- Georg Lukács : the contradictory world of Kings -- Ernst Bloch : anti-Yahwism in Ezekiel -- Theodor Adorno : the logic of divine justice in Isaiah -- Fredric Jameson : the contradictions of form in the Psalms -- Walter Benjamin : the impossible apocalyptic of Daniel -- Conclusion : on the question of mode of production.

0826463274 0826463282 (pbk.)

2004298343

BS1171.3 / .B64 2003

221.6/0883354