Present and future of biblical studies : celebrating twenty-five years of Brill's Biblical interpretation /

What is the current state of the field known as biblical studies? How will biblical studies continue to develop in this diverse, globalized, and digital age? In this book, a diverse group of scholars who are known for their innovative practice of biblical interpretation come together to celebrate th...

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Other Authors: Liew, Tat-siong Benny.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 161.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353275.

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Call Number: BS511.3

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Nostalgic for a Future /
  • Tat-siong Benny Liew
  • Questions of Time and History
  • An Essay on Method /
  • Roland Boer
  • Grammars of Sacrifice: Futures, Subjunctives, and What Would Have/Could Have Happened on Mount Moriah* /
  • Yvonne Sherwood
  • Curational Reflections: On Rhetorics of Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Scholarship1 /
  • Davina C. Lopez
  • Contemporary (Analog) Tensions and Digital Futures1 /
  • Jay Twomey
  • Certeau and the Two Ways: Digital Dissolution and the Demands of Power in Biblical Studies /
  • Yii-Jan Lin
  • Questions of Time, Place, and Planet
  • No Future for Biblical Studies? Or, Still Living with a Contingent Apocalypse as Biblical Interpretation Turns 25 /
  • Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
  • Postcolonializing the Bible with a Little Help from Derek Walcott /
  • Steed Vernyl Davidson
  • Erasures and Dysplacements: The "Belly-Myther" of Endor and Biblical Studies from Canada in Light of the trc1 /
  • Fiona C. Black
  • The Power of Canonised Motifs: The Chance for Biblical Studies in a Secular, Canonically Illiterate World? /
  • Jorunn Økland
  • African Biblical Scholarship as Post-Colonial, Tri-Polar, and a Site-of-Struggle /
  • Gerald O. West
  • Those Incommensurate Activities We Call "Biblical Studies": A Future-Oriented History of Their Bifurcated Present /
  • Stephen D. Moore
  • "Staying with the Trouble": Climates of Change in Biblical Studies /
  • Ken Stone.