Description: There can be little doubt that the Holocaust was an event of major consequence for twentieth century. While there have been innumerable vol uses published on the implications of the Holocaust for history, philosophy, and ethics, there has been a surprising tack of attention paid to the theoretical and practical effects of the Shoah on biblical interpretation.

Strange Fire addresses the implications of the Holocaust for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, bringing together a divans end distinguished range of contributors, including Richard Rubenstein, Elie Wiesel, and Walter Brueggmann, to discuss theoretical end methodological considerations emerging from the Shoah and to demonstrate the importance of these considerations in the reading of specific biblical texts. The volume addresses such issues es Jewish end Christian biblical theology after the Holocaust, the ethics of Christian appropriation of Jewish scripture, end the rethinking of biblical models of suffering and sacrifice from a post-Holocaust perspective.

The first book of its kind. Strange Fire will establish a benchmark for ell future work on the topic.

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