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Imitating Paul A Discourse of Power

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ISBN-10: 0664252346

ISBN-13: 9780664252342

Edition: N/A

Authors: Elizabeth A. Castelli

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What does it mean to imitate another person? What relationships are possible and necessary, or unthinkable, because of exhortation advising people to imitate Paul? What are the effects of giving special status to likeness? Questions such as these are posed in this thought-provoking book that addresses the notion of mimesis (imitation) and how it functions in Paul's letters as a strategy of power.The Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation series explores current trends within the discipline of biblical interpretation by dealing with the literary qualities of the Bible: the play of its language, the coherence of its final form, and the relationships between text and readers. Biblical…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 11/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Elizabeth A. Castelli is associate professor of religion at Barnard College at Columbia University. She is the author of Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power,coauthor of The Postmodern Bible,and editor of several books, including Women, Gender, and Religion: A Reader.She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religionand is the editor of a new journal, Postscripts: Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds.In 2003 and 2004 she was the senior research scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University.