Biblical Blaspheming : Trials of the Sacred for a Secular Age (Hardcover)

Preface; Part I. The Persistence of Blasphemy: 1. The persistence of blasphemy: the Bible as a public edifice in the secular state; Part II. Biblical Exhibitions/Biblical Exhibitionism: 2. The exquisite fruit-corpse and the surrealist works of God; 3. Prophetic scatology: prophecy and the art of sensation; Part III. Inappropriate Involvement in the Biblical Text: 4. A recently discovered letter from Isaac to Abraham (annotated); 5. Passion-binding-passion: sacrifice, masochism and the subject; Part IV. Beyond 'the Bible as Literature': 6. 'Not with a bang but a whimper': shrunken apocalypses in Ecclesiastes 12.1?8 and twentieth-century modernism; 7. The fear of loss inherent in writing: Jeremiah 36 as the tedious self-narration of a highly self-conscious scroll with Mark Brummitt; 8. John Donne and the Baroque prophets; Part V. Theo-politics, Authority and the Bible: 9. On the genesis of the alliance between the Bible and rights; 10. Binding-unbinding: pre-critical 'critique' in pre-modern Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to the 'sacrifice' of Abraham/Ibrahim's son.