Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Average rating: 3.81 · 188 ratings · 24 reviews · 24 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Biblical Theology of Exile

4.06 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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Subverting Hatred: The Chal...

3.66 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
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Lost Books of the Bible For...

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Micah: A Commentary

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The Religion of the Landles...

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Jonah, Jesus, and Other Goo...

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In The Beginning: Understan...

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10 Great Events of the Old ...

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Sacred Scripture: A Catholi...

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The Blacklisted Bible: Bibl...

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“If we are able to read stereotypical language of the Bible in reference to suffering -- and particularly the suffering involved in siege warfare -- as a measure not so much of the historical details of the disaster or catastrophe, but rather as a measure of the emotional, social, and obviously therefore spiritual impact of the disaster (after all, this is religious literature), then our analysis of a good deal of biblical literature in relation to the exile would need to be rethought. Stereotypical literature of suffering is not literature that can somehow be 'decoded' to mean that the exiles actually lived in Babylonian comfort. (p. 104)”
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, A Biblical Theology of Exile

“That language is demonstrably stereotypical -- in either the Bible or the modern Mediterranean cultures -- is not the same thing as saying that a language is demonstrably fraudulent -- or that it is language that is not reacting to real trauma. (p. 103)”
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, A Biblical Theology of Exile

“We must keep in mind Edward Said's important warning that the first reality for thinking creatively (and for us, theologically) about exile is that it is a form of disaster and trauma that is inseparably connected to human actions related to power, dominance, and brutality:

'To think of exile as beneficial, as a spur to humanism or to creativity, is to belittle its mutliations.' (p. 21)”
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, A Biblical Theology of Exile



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