The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780687084142)

In The Children of Israel, Danna Nolan Fewell explores how imaginative readings of selected scriptural texts might raise adult consciousness and responsibility toward children. Through stories, quotes, vignettes, and notes, Fewell provides different kinds of reading experiences, with different levels of coherence and disjunction, depending on how much the reader decides to delve into the critical apparatus or the framing dialogues. This work is designed to unsettle, to plant suggestions and questions, and to create space for reflection and conversation. It is an experiment to see if a postmodern reading of the Bible can provide a credible ethical vision that can inspire us to do a better job of caring for our children. "The ways in which Fewell addresses the theme is inspiring. The text is imaginatively crafted and skillfully written." --Leslie J. Francis, from The Expository Times, volume 116, Number 8, May 2005

Author: Danna Nolan Fewell
ISBN-10: 0687084148
ISBN-13: 9780687084142
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.46h x 6.76w x 0.67d