Fragile dignity intercontextual conversations on scriptures, family, and violence / edited by L. Juliana Claassens and Klaas Spronk.
| Other author | Claassens, L. Juliana M., 1972- |
| Other author | Spronk, Klaas. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013] |
| Description | vii, 338 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Semeia studies / Society of Biblical Literature ; number 72 Semeia studies ; no. 72. ^A1043593 |
| Contents | Introduction / Julie Claassens and Klaas Spronk -- The hermeneutics of dignity / Frits de Lange -- Response / Gerrit Brand -- Figuring God and humankind : the imago Dei in view of anthropologies in the Old Testament / Hendrik Bosman -- Response / Klaas Spronk -- External response: The givenness of human dignity / Beverley E. Mitchell -- A true disgrace? the representation of violence against women in the Book of Lamentations and in J.M. coetzee's novel Disgrace / L. Juliana M. Claassens -- Response / Dorothea Erbele-Køster -- Birth as creation under threat . Biblical-theological reflections on assisted reproductive technologies / Dorothea Erbele-Køster -- Response / Charlene van der Walt -- Human dignity, families and violence : the New Testament as resource? / Jeremey Punt -- Response / Magda Misset-van de Weg -- External response: A fragile dignity : intercontextual conversation on scripture, family and violence / Elsa Tamez -- Dignity in the family? Analyzing our ambiguous relationship to the family and theological suggestions towards overcoming it / Petruschka Schaafsma -- Response / Robert Vosloo -- Empowering those who suffer domestic violence : the necessity of a different theological imagery / Anne-Claire Mulder -- Response / Mary-Anne Plaatjies-van Huffel -- External response: Family and its discontents / Cheryl B. Anderson -- Missing links in mainline churches : Biblical life stories and their claim in todaýs family preaching / Ciska Stark -- Response / Ian Nell -- "Household" (dis)loyalties and violence in Judges 14 and 15 : dignity of gendered and religious "others" in a dialogical theological praxis / D. Xolile Simon and Lee-Ann J. Simon -- Response / Leo Koffeman -- Women and honor in Bible and Qur'an / Gø Speelman -- Response / Yusuf Wagid -- External response: Fragile dignity : family, honor, scripture / Monica J. Melanchton -- Reflections on reflections : rights, in/dignity, in/equality, faith; the Bible as universal medicine? / Athalya Brenner. |
| General note | "The collection of essays is the result of the collaboration between the Protestant Theological University in Kampen, Netherlands and the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa"--Introduction. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013022944 |
| ISBN | 9781589838956 (paper binding : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781589838970 (hardcover binding : alk. paper) |
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