Borderline Exegesis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Introduction: Another Bible that Is Borderline

1 Into the Whirlwind: God’s Answer to Job’s Complaint

2 The Economy, Stupid! The Teaching of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew

Interlude: Displaced Exegete: A Scriptural Biography

3 Such a Little Thing! The Tongue and Alternate Subjectivity in the Epistle of James

4 Interrupting Hope: The Book of Revelation

Conclusion: After the Bible: Life’s Largesse

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“With Borderline Exegesis, Leif Vaage takes us back to where interpretation started, to the encounter between texts and life. Borderline Exegesis is a significant innovation in biblical exegesis in which the distinction between academic reading of texts and the experience of human life disappears, where the questions of the meaning of texts and the meaning of life are one and the same. Based on encounters from his time in Peru, Vaage moves exegesis from the comfort zone of Western exegetes into the experience of human life in extremis, where reading biblical texts by necessity becomes a work of utopian imagination.”

—Halvor Moxnes, University of Oslo