Zusammenfassung
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters brings together the work of world-renowned scholars in Bible, theology, religion, and cultural studies to explore the monsters that rampage through the biblical text.

Inhalt

• Introduction by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead

• Background Studies

• 1. Overview of Monster Theory by Doug Cowan
• 2. Monstrous God and Monstrous Creators by Anthony Rees
• 3. Demons and Monsters of Mesopotamia by Anne Marie Kitz
• 4. Ghosts of Mesopotamia by JoAnn Scurlock

• Hebrew Bible Explorations

• 5. Moloch by George Heider
• 6. Anzu by Tammi Schneider
• 7. Giants by Brian Doak
• 8. Lilith by Jessi Knippel and Leland Merritt
• 9. Shapeshifters in Daniel by Michael Hammett
• 10. Monsters of Daniel 7 by Eric Jarrard

• Monsters of the Divine

• 11. Leviathan by Robert Miller II
• 12. Behemoth by Mark Sneed
• 13. Satan by Ryan Stokes
• 14. Sheol by Christopher B. Hays
• 15. The Mischwesen of Ezekiel by Megan Remington

• Rhetoric of Control

• 16. The Monstrous Feminine in the Hebrew Bible by Rhiannon Graybill and Peter Sabo
• 17. Monstrosity in the Wisdom of Solomon by Thomas Scott Cason

• New Testament and Second Temple Era

• 18. The Monstrosity of the Crucifixion by Richard Walsh
• 19. Demons in the New Testament by Archie Wright
• 20. The Monstrous Jew in the Gospels by Kelly J. Murphy
• 21. The Monstrous Dragon of Revelation by Heather Macumber
• 22. The Other Monsters of Revelation by David Barr

• Monstrous Afterlives

• 23. Monstrous Angels in the Modern World by Gregory Stevenson
• 24. Biblical Demons in Contemporary Culture by Joseph Laycock
• 25. Satan in Contemporary Culture by Scott Poole
• 26. The Monsters of Young-Earth Creationists by Valarie Ziegler
• 27. Today's Apocalyptic Monsters by Elizabeth Coody