The future of the biblical past : envisioning biblical studies on a global key / edited by Roland Boer and Fernando F. Segovia

Published:: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2012]
Copyright Date:: ©2012
Physical Description:: xxv, 382 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Boer, Roland, 1961- and Segovia, Fernando F.

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Series:

Semeia studies ; no. 66.

Contents:

Introduction: the futures of biblical pasts -- pt. 1. Africa. Biblical interpretation and criticism in neocolonial Africa: challenges, conceptualizations, and needs in the twenty-first century / Israel Kadmuzandu -- Beyond the "ordinary reader" and the "invisible intellectual": pushing the boundaries of contextual Bible study discourses / Sarojini Nadar -- Dealing (with) the past and future of biblical studies: a new South African perspective / Jeremy Punt -- pt. 2. Asia. Unleashing the power within: the Bible and Dalits / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon -- For a better future in Korean biblical studies: dialoguing with myself in a different context / Yong-Sung Ahn -- Biblical studies in a rising Asia: an Asian perspective on the future of the biblical past / Philip Chia -- pt. 3. Europe. The future of a nonexistent past: biblical studies in Bulgaria / Milena Korova -- Unity and diversity in Nordic biblical scholarship / Hanna Stenström -- pt. 4. Latin America and the Caribbean. Liberation in Latin American biblical hermeneutics / Pablo R. Andiñach -- Paper is patient, history is not: readings and unreadings of the Bible in Latin America (1985-2005) / Nancy Cardoso Pereira -- Liberating the Bible: popular Bible study and its academia allies / Jorge Pixley -- Biblical studies in the Anglo-Caribbean: past, present, and future challenges, opportunities, and possibilities / Gosnell Yorke -- pt. 5. Pacific. Drifting homes / Jione Havea -- Braiding the traditions in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Judith E. McKinlay -- Caught in between: Australian biblical studies between Asia, the Pacific, and the West / Roland Boer -- pt. 6. North America: Canada and the United States. Reading the Bible in "our home and native land": exploring some margins and migrations in Canadian biblical studies (through the lens of Psalm 137) / Fiona C. Black -- The virtual Bible / George Aichele --What has been done?: what can we learn?: racial/ethnic minority readings of the Bible in the United States / Tat-Siong Benny Liew -- Changing the paradigms: toward a feminist future of the biblical past / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Cultural criticm: expanding the scope of biblical criticism / Fernando F. Segovia -- Signifying on the fetish: mapping a new critical orientation / Vincent L. Wimbush.

Subject(s):

Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9781589837034 (paper binding : alk. paper)
1589837037 (paper binding : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-382).

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