Research Catalog

Title

Present and future of biblical studies : celebrating 25 years of Brill's Biblical interpretation / edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

Liew, Tat-siong Benny

Description

x, 327 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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 the 25th anniversary of the critically acclaimed journal, 'Biblical Interpretation', by sharing their thoughts on and questions about the assumptions, practices, and parameters of biblical studies as well as their desires and fears about its disciplinary future. Covering a wide range of topics, geographical regions, resources, understandings, and viewpoints, this exceptional collection of essays will make you and help you rethink the conventions and convictions of biblical studies as an academic discipline.

Series Statement

Biblical Interpretation series ; volume 161

Uniform Title

Biblical interpretation series ; v. 161.

Subjects

• Bible
• Biblical interpretation
• Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Nostalgic for a future / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- 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 scholarship / Davina C. Lopez -- Contemporary (analog) tensions and digital futures / Jay Twomey -- Certeau and the two ways : digital dissolution and the demands of power in Biblical studies / Yü-Jan Lin -- 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 TRC / 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.

Call Number

JFE 18-7511

ISBN

• 9789004363069
• 9004363068

LCCN

• 2017057915
• 9789004363069

OCLC

1023821653

Title

Present and future of biblical studies : celebrating 25 years of Brill's Biblical interpretation / edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Biblical Interpretation series ; volume 161

Biblical interpretation series ; v. 161.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Liew, Tat-siong Benny, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Present and future of biblical studies. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004363540 (DLC) 2018007531

Other Standard Identifier

9789004363069

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7511