Semeia 33: Rene Girard and Biblical Studies
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“The cycle of violence will come to a stop again and again at the gate of this unity. But in order to be this counter-world to the world of violence, the unity must be truly universal, it must never close itself off over-against any part of humanity, it must be a unity without limits except the limits created by those who exclude themselves by wanting to exclude others. Unity in Christ, grounded in the unity of the Father and the son, can only be universal or else it falls back into the unity of violence based on exclusion and expulsion.” (Page 93)
“His crossing the line between the human and the divine realm means the abolition of the line on behalf of humanity, ‘that they may all be one.’ The unity—in the place of the enmity—of the human community with the Father is the fundamental good news that Jesus has come to bring to the world. Therefore he prays that the world may believe when this unity becomes visible in those who believe Jesus’ word.” (Page 93)
“The unity of the human community can be modeled on the union existing between the Father and the son without placing the two into a position of rivalry. What passes between the two is not rivalry but ‘glory,’ the glory that Jesus has received from the Father. Within the context established by Jesus’ word his relationship with the Father can become the model to be imitated as a sign of peace.” (Page 93)
“The Corinthians had laid claim to a great variety of such gifts, and the claims had contributed to the divisions within the community. Spirituality itself had become a bone of contention, it had been seized by mimetic desire as the highest gift.” (Page 91)
- Andrew J. McKenna
- René Girard
- Sandor Goodhart
- Robert Hamerton-Kelly
- Thomas Wieser
- Eric Gans
- Raymund Schwager
- Baruch Levine
- Burton L. Mack
- Title: Semeia 33: Rene Girard and Biblical Studies
- Editor: Andrew J. McKenna
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1985
- Pages: 155
