Biblical Outlaws

What the Bible’s Most Despised Characters Can Teach Us

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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A revelatory exploration of how the Bible’s underdogs, outlaws, and forgotten figures can teach us about our humanityIn this unprecedented book, a secular humanist and celebrated scholar of religion tells the stories of the Bible’s most marginalized figures, challenging readers to reconsider who are the heroes of the text, and who are the villains. What happens when such figures as Lot’s Wife, Job’s Wife, Nimrod, “Doubting” Thomas, and the cursed disciple Judas take center stage? What happens if the Bible is read to privilege the margins of life, where the most socially questionable and ignored are found?In asking and answering these questions, Anthony B. Pinn finds important lessons in the hidden corners of scripture, in the dark places, and among the despised figures who have a troubled relationship with a troubling world. Freeing these figures to offer their version of events, this book encourages a reading of the Bible against the Bible. Pinn argues that there are life-affirming lessons to learn from these marginalized figures. Something important about our humanity is illustrated not by the Bible’s heroes but by those we tend to forget or discredit.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-25
Mått:140 x 216 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Yale University Press
ISBN:9780300283495

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Anthony B. Pinn is is Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Rice University. He is the author or editor of more than forty-five books, including Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together. Pinn splits his time between Houston, TX, and Boston, MA.

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“By honoring the humanity of these biblical outcasts, Professor Pinn fearlessly draws liberating truth from the margins. Biblical Outlaws will reshape your reading of the Bible and profoundly expand your moral imagination.”—Brad R. Braxton, president and professor of public theology, Chicago Theological Seminary“In Biblical Outlaws, Anthony Pinn perfects what he has pioneered: liberation atheism and emancipatory humanism. By brilliantly rereading biblical passages through his unbelieving lens, he gives believable voice to figures who have been unjustly text-communicated and unfairly demonized as enemies of the faith. Pinn challenges progressive believers to confront our complicity in the oppression we claim to oppose, and to restore the moral stature and theological usefulness of characters whose legacies are wrongly tarnished.”—Michael Eric Dyson“Pinn breathes new life and new dimension into millennia-old stories in this nuanced and thought-provoking exploration of the very human characters who play a part in these divine dramas.”—Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World“Focusing on five biblical figures and providing a humanist assessment of their respective narratives, Pinn’s provocative and timely book presents these storied characters in ways that are both complex and compelling.”—Juan Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University