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

• TeilnehmendeR: Liew, Tat-siong Benny.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 161.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (337 pages).

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.

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.