Scripted Bodies: Reading the Spectacle of Jacob Wrestling the Angel‪.‬

The Bible writes our flesh, its meanings and possibilities. But writing is nothing if it is not read, and the distinction between writing and reading opens a space for movement, for a field of energy. This, indeed, is the field of religion, in which believers are bound (religare) over to the reading, again and again (relegere), of the texts by which they are both bound and set free. (Loughlin, 2006, p. 381) Struggling with the Corpus