Biblical Reception

Hannah M. Strømmen is Senior Lecturer for Bible, Politics and Culture at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

• Chapter One: Introduction: Models and Methods for Biblical Reception - Hannah M. Strømmen, Lund University, SwedenPart One: DesignationsChapter Two: Mapping Biblical Reception: Questions, Answers, Stories - Andrew Mein, University of St. Andrews, UKChapter Three: Reception History in the Long Run: The Case of Ball’s Bible and English History - James Crossley, University of Cambridge, UKChapter Four: Reception Exegesis: How Literary Retellings Can Shed New Light on a Biblical Text and its Interpretations - Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, ALT School of Theology, SwedenChapter Five: Liberative Reception Criticism: The Case for Methodological Advances in Contemporary Reception Studies - Siobhán Jolley, University of Manchester, UKChapter Six: Biblical Reception as Transformative Justice: Disrupting Prison Hell - Erin Runions, Pomona College, USAChapter Seven: Reception Criticism and Feminist Criticism - Mikael Larsson, Uppsala University, SwedenChapter Eight: Gadamer and Jauss: History, Tradition, and Self-Understanding - Robert Evans, University of Chester, UKPart Two: DelineationsChapter Nine: The Double Articulation of Reception History: The Example of Exodus 4: 24–26 - Brennan Breed, Columbia Theological Seminary, USAChapter Ten: From Text to Type: The Mythic Afterlives of Biblical ‘Bad Girls’ - Siobhán Jolley, University of Manchester, UK, Rachel Miller, University of Manchester, UK, and Holly Morse, University of Manchester, UKChapter Eleven: Biblical Narratives in the Digital Newspaper Archive: Whose Bible Is It Anyway? - Terje Stordalen, University of Oslo, Norway Chapter Twelve: Biblical Onslaught: Classifying Biblicisms in the Modern Media Age - Rebekah Carere, University of Kent, UKChapter Thirteen: A Model for Research on Bible Reception: Biblical Retellings for Children as a Starting Point - Ingunn Aadland, Norwegian School of Theology, NorwayChapter Fourteen: Biblical Assemblages as a Model for Reception Studies - Hannah M. Strømmen, Lund University, SwedenPart Three: DirectionsChapter Fifteen: Biblical Reception Criticism and Critical Discourse Analysis - Hanna Liljefors, Lund University, SwedenChapter Sixteen: Biblical Reception and Fan Studies: Examining Why People Create Works of Reception - Tom de Bruin, Radboud University, the NetherlandsChapter Seventeen: Going Empirical – The Why’s, How’s, and What’s: Bible Reading Interviews in Jerusalem -Jennifer Nyström, University of Gothenburg, SwedenChapter Eighteen: Truth, Talisman, Tyranny: A Conceptual Umbrella for Discerning the Political Use of Scriptures - Sam Kocheri, Houghton University, USAChapter Nineteen: Biblical Encounters: Reception Criticism and the Curatorial Turn - Holly Morse, University of Manchester, UKChapter Twenty: Beyond Reception? Conceptual Shifts for Biblical Reception Studies - Colleen Conway, Seton Hall University, USAIndex