Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation – serie
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How Things Feel
Affect Theory, Biblical Studies, and the (Im)Personal
Häftad, 2016
1201 kr
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This essay is an attempt to do an intellectual history, one of affect theory both within and without biblical studies, as an ecology of thought. It is an “archive of feelings,” a series of thematic portraits, and a description of the landscape of the field of biblical studies through a set of …
Play of Signifiers
Poststructuralism and Study of the Bible
Häftad, 2016
1214 kr
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This volume presents a brief introduction to the scholarly methodology known as "poststructuralism." The first two chapters discuss basic concepts in poststructuralist study in general, as well as major concerns involved in poststructural study of any text. The focus is on the importance of the …
Genocide, the Bible and Biblical Scholarship
Av Shawn Kelley
Häftad, 2016
1240 kr
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Scholarship is currently engaged in a rich debate around the historical, hermeneutical and theological problems posed by the Bible's occasional yet enthusiastic endorsement of mass extermination. The article engages this ongoing scholarly conversation by way of a dialogue with the emerging field of …
Space, Land, Territory, and the Study of the Bible
Häftad, 2017
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In this brief volume, written for professional biblical scholars and graduate students being trained in Bible, Stephen C. Russell introduces the reader to the interdisciplinary study of space and its related concepts, including land, territory, border, frontier, nature, scale, spatial flows, and …
Masculinity and the Bible
Survey, Models, and Perspectives
Häftad, 2017
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Most characters in the Bible are men, yet they are hardly analysed as such. Masculinity and the Bible provides the first comprehensive survey of approaches that remedy this situation. These are studies that utilize insights from the field of masculinity studies to further biblical studies. The …
Reading the Bible as a Feminist
Häftad, 2017
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This work provides a brief introduction to feminist interpretation of scripture. Feminist interpretation is first grounded in feminism as an intellectual and political movement. Next, this introduction briefly recounts the origins of feminist readings of the Bible with attention to both early …
Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective
Häftad, 2017
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Examining the legacies of European imperialism, Steed Vernyl Davidson traces how the Bible reflects strong affinities with empire and provides on-going justifications for empire and concentrations of power. Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective traces the evolution of the Bible from …
Sense of Quoting
A Semiotic Case Study of Biblical Quotations
Häftad, 2018
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In The Sense of Quoting, Odell-Scott argues that the neutral continuous script of ancient manuscripts of the Greek New Testament composed with no punctuation and no spacing provided readers discretionary authority to determine and assess the status of phrases as they articulate a cohesive and …
Anthropology and Hebrew Bible Studies: Modes of Interchange and Interpretation
Häftad, 2018
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Interchange between anthropology and biblical scholarship began because of perceived similarities between “simpler” societies and practices appearing in the Hebrew Bible. After some disengagement when anthropologists turned mainly to ethnographic fieldwork, new cross-disciplinary possibilities …
History and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory
Av Ian Wilson
Häftad, 2018
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This essay offers an introduction to select disciplinary developments in the study of history and in historical study of the Hebrew Bible. It focuses first and foremost on “cultural history,” a broad category defined by nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in anthropology and sociology, …
Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies
Häftad, 2019
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While postmodernism remains an ambiguous and messy phenomenon to represent, it also remains a compelling prophetic voice in the ongoing development of contemporary biblical studies. In Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies, Andrew P. Wilson tracks the various strands of …
Latina/o/x Studies and Biblical Studies
Häftad, 2020
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In Latina/o/x Studies and Biblical Studies Jacqueline M. Hidalgo introduces Latina/o/x studies for a biblical studies audience. She examines crucial themes that bridge the two fields, themes such as identity and difference with special attention to ethnicity and race; migration with attention to …
Apostles of Revolution? Marxism and Biblical Studies
Häftad, 2020
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In Apostles of Revolution? Marxism and Biblical Studies Christina Petterson sheds light on the collaboration between Biblical studies and liberal ideology. Marxist analysis of the bible is spreading, but clarity about what constitutes Marxist readings and Marxist categories of analysis is lacking – …
Black/Africana Studies and Black/Africana Biblical Studies
Häftad, 2020
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In this study, Abraham Smith introduces the nature, history, and interventions of two theoretical-political cultural productions: Black/Africana studies (the systematic and rigorous study of Africa and African descendants) and Black/Africana biblical studies (a biblical studies’ subfield that …
Trauma Theory, Trauma Story
A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma
Häftad, 2021
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This work offers an overview of trauma theory’s relations to biblical studies. In addition to summarizing the theoretical landscape(s), it provides exegetical forays into Ezekiel and, in part, Exodus and the Eucharist. The analysis will engage these materials’ traumatic ethoi, including their …
Decolonial Theory and Biblical Unreading
Delinking Biblical Criticism from Coloniality
Häftad, 2024
1075 kr
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Postcolonial theory in the mode of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and, above all, Homi Bhabha has long been a resource for biblical scholars concerned with empire and imperialism, colonialism and neocolonialism. Outside biblical studies, however, postcolonial theory is increasingly eclipsed by …
Migration and Western Biblical Interpretation
Empire, Method, and the Politics of Displacement
Häftad, 2026
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Before migration studies became a formal discipline, its core terminology was shaped within Western scientific and nationalist frameworks. This book interrogates how those frameworks continue to structure biblical interpretation. Challenging methodological nationalism and the “container model” of …
