ABSTRACT
This part focuses on questions concerning the characteristics and problematics (and problematic characteristics) of God’s identity in biblical literature and in the religious communities that read it. What is “the image of God”? What are the implications of putting God into writing? Insofar as biblical texts often use metaphors that involve language of the body, what are the implications of God’s incorporation into Scripture? Is God’s inscription (being put into writing) also God’s embodiment (a “theological corpus”)? Relatedly, how is divine subjectivity entangled in issues of sameness and difference? How does biblical literature struggle with these conundrums? How do “people of the Book” struggle with them? How do such problematics constrain and/ or empower theological discourse in contemporary politics?
