Evil gods and reckless saviours: adaptation and appropriation in late twentieth-century Jesus novels
Late twentieth-century Jesus novels carve out a completely new picture of Jesus. Those written by Norman Mailer, José Saramago, Michèle Roberts, Marianne Fredriksson, and Ki Longfellow, among others, provide inversive revisions of the canonical Gospels. Their adaptations often turn into a critique o...
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Zusammenfassung: | Late twentieth-century Jesus novels carve out a completely new picture of Jesus. Those written by Norman Mailer, José Saramago, Michèle Roberts, Marianne Fredriksson, and Ki Longfellow, among others, provide inversive revisions of the canonical Gospels. Their adaptations often turn into a critique of the whole of Christian history. The contrast novels investigated in this study end up with appropriations that are based on prototypical rewriting. They aim at the rehabilitation of Judas, and some of them make Mary Magdalene the key figure of Christianity. Saramago describes God as a bloodthirsty tyrant, and Mailer makes God battle the devil in a "Manichaen" sense as with an equal. The main result of this intertextual analysis is that these authors have adopted Nietzschean ideas in their writing. An attack on the so-called biblical slave morality and violent concept of God deprives Jesus of his Jewish messianic identity, makes Old Testament law a contradiction of life, calls sacrificial soteriology a violent paradigm supporting oppression, and presents God as a cruel monster. As a result, Jewish faith appears in a negative light. Apparently, Western culture still harbours anti-Judaic attitudes, albeit hidden beneath sentiments of equality and tolerance. Timo Eskola skillfully shows that despite the evident post-Holocaust consciousness present in the novels, they actually adopt an arrogant and ironic refutation of Jewish beliefs and Old Testament faith |
Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-337) Source texts and subtexts in contemporary Jesus-novels -- Turning God-incarnate into a Faustian frivol -- Contesting the moral values of the gospels -- Challenging the biblical role of women -- Dissolving sacrificial religion -- Attacking biblical theism -- Reinjecting mystery into religion -- Iconoclastic intertextualism -- Conclusion: Nietzschean themes in contrast-novels |
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Autor: Eskola, Timo
Jahr: 2011
Contents
Preface ...i
Introduction ... 1
1. Polarisation in recent Jesus-novels ... 1
2. Investigating rewritten Gospels ... 10
3. Ethical reading and ethical readings ... 15
4. On the history of Jesus-novels ... 18
5. Nietzschean tradition and the gospel of Zarathustra .. .22
1. Sourcetexts and subtexts in contemporary Jesus-novels .. .35
1.1. Adaptation and appropriation ... 3 5
1.2. Canonical Gospels ...41
1.3. Gnostic writings ... 56
1.4. Apocryphal Gospels ...61
1.5. Qumran scrolls ... 64
2. Turning the God-incarnate into a Faustian frivol .. .69
2.1. Discarding Jesus Messianic identity .. .69
2.2. A pact with the Devil ...83
2.3. Jesus against Moses ... 93
2.4. Transferring Jesus out of Judaism ... 100
2.5. From deification to humanisation ... 105
3. Contesting the moral values of the Gospels ... 112
3.1. A rehabilitation of Judas ... 112
3.2. Bastards and drunkards ... 121
3.3. Magdalene s lover ... 126
3.4. Difficulties with slave morality ... 134
4. Challenging the Biblical role of women ... 141
4.1. Defining feminism ... 141
4.2. Jesus vs. Mary Magdalene ... 144
4.3. Against the primacy of the Apostles ... 149
4.4. Feminine religion replaces male dogmaticism ... 153
4.5. Writing women into history ... 159
4.6. Dismantling progressive patriarchalisation ... 164
5. Dissolving sacrificial religion ... 168
5.1. Sacrifice and violence ... 168
5.2. Questioning the Biblical view of human nature ... 177
5.3. Rejecting the doctrine of atonement ... 181
5.4. Religion as a game of power ... 185
6. Attacking Biblical Theism ... 191
6.1. Yahweh and his rivals ... 191
6.2. The problem of theodicy ... 195
6.3. God and the Devil as heteronyms .. .205
6.4. The God-sign as a Derridean simulacrum ...212
6.5. Applications of death-of-God theology ...218
7. Re-injecting mystery into religion .. .225
7.1. Mary Magdalene and heavenly knowledge .. .225
7.2. Jesus as an example of a new experience of the divine .. .233
7.3. Interpretation of si gns and codes ... 237
7.4. Between Gnosticism and negative theology .. .240
8. Iconoclastic intertextualism .. .247
8.1. Reading hi story backwards ... 247
8.2. The reversal of roles .. .254
8.3. Jesus beyond good and evil: an ethical reading .. .257
8.4. Rewriting ancient myths .. .263
9. Conclusion: Nietzschean themes in contrast-novels .. .272
Bibliography ...281
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