Museum of the Bible

Jill Hicks-Keeton is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Oklahoma.Cavan Concannon is associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California.

This volume is remarkable not only for the depth of its analysis, the close scrutiny of the Museum’s exhibits, and the rhetorical strategies and structures it intends to expose. It is singular in its effort to critically resist the efforts of an institution that habitually co-opts and commandeers the research and pedigrees of individual scholars and the institutions they represent...Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon show that the academy will not be so easily dismissed or purchased, and that even if the Museum of the Bible seeks to control the meaning of the biblical texts it presents, it will not succeed in controlling the narrative about itself.

• Foreword Candida R. Moss and Joel S. BadenIntroduction Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan ConcannonI. What’s the Bible Good For?Chapter 1 “It’s Complicated.” “No It’s Not.” : The Museum of the Bible, Problems and Solutions Margaret M. MitchellChapter 2 Exploring Race, Religion, and Slavery at the Museum of the BibleTerrence L. JohnsonII. The Museum of Whose Bible?Chapter 3 Christian Supersessionism and the Problem of Diversity at the Museum of the Bible Jill Hicks-KeetonChapter 4 Looking at the Bible Sideways: One Jewish Scholar’s Perspective Marc Zvi BrettlerChapter 5 Smoke and Mirrors: The Hebrew Bible Exhibit at the Museum of the Bible Mark LeuchterIII. Archaeology, Israel, and the “Reliability” of the BibleChapter 6 Theopolitics, Archaeology, and the Ideology of the Museum of the Bible Cavan ConcannonChapter 7 The Land of Israel and Bodily Pedagogy at the Museum of the BibleSarah F. PorterIV. Materiality, Text, and the Produc