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Overview
God, Gender and the Bible foregrounds the tension between divine omnipotence and human autonomy, evident since the age of the European Enlightenment, and discusses it in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power. Taking this unresolved tension as an issue this study takes a new look at a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Biblical texts are deconstructed and understood in the light of their own socio-political context, and texts that infer a counter-culture, in relation both to the boundaries of their own time and their position within a canon of scripture are reassessed.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Readers who prefer that deeds, however dastardly, at least be civilized will enjoy the nine tales in this engaging collection (although not all are murder mysteries, despite the title). Some of the best showings have a decided air of the puzzle about them, such as C. M. Chan's story, which puts Det. Sgt. Jack Gibbons and his wealthy friend Phillip Bethancourt on the case when a woman applying makeup falls over dead in the safety of her own bedroom. Amanda Cross's Harvard professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler is reluctantly drawn into the family affairs of a disagreeable colleague when his young daughter appeals to her for help in solving a dognapping. Margery Allingham's Albert Campion and Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey thwart criminals with their usual aristocratic aplomb; but Julian Symons's tongue-in-cheek offering taps familiar characters of another sort as trouble brews for Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum et al., and only Miss Harple, an authority on the works of Agatha Christie, can sort out what is afoot. Manson edited Mystery for Christmas. (Jan.)Book Details
Published
January 28, 1993
Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Signet, 1993.
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780451174833