Foster Biblical Scholarship

Essays in Honor of Kent Harold Richards
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-18711-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Reihe: SBL - Biblical Scholarship in North America

This collection of essays describes the pursuit of biblical scholarship in the twenty-first century and explores the implications of modern and postmodern approaches, collaborative and emancipative models of graduate and undergraduate education, and public and political uses of the Bible. Special attention is given to the role of the Society of Biblical Literature. Essays by nine SBL presidents appear in the collection, which honors SBL Executive Director Emeritus Kent Harold Richards. The contributors are Paul J. Achtemeier, Frank Ritchel Ames, Pablo R. Andiñach, Harold W. Attridge, Athalya Brenner, David J. A. Clines, John J. Collins, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, J. Cheryl Exum, Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Norman C. Habel, Douglas A. Knight, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, James Luther Mays, Charles William Miller, Gail R. O’Day, David L. Petersen, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Gene M. Tucker, and Vincent L. Wimbush.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ames, Frank Ritchel

Miller, Charles William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Fostering Biblical Scholarship
Fostering Biblical Scholarship: The Contributions of Kent Harold Richards
Gail R. O’Day
Conditions Th at Foster Biblical Scholarship
Frank Ritchel Ames
Th e Modern (and Postmodern?) Society of Biblical Literature: Institutions and Scholarship
Gene M. Tucker
Study of the New Testament in the Pluralistic Context of the Twenty-First Century
Harold W. Attridge
Faith, Scholarship, and the Society of Biblical Literature
John J. Collins
Politics and Biblical Scholarship in the United States
Douglas A. Knight
Ex-Centric Reading: A Case for Critical Reorientation
Vincent L. Wimbush
The Bible in Public View
David L. Petersen

Part 2: New Pedagogies and the Biblical Studies Curriculum
A Republic of Many Voices: Biblical Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Teaching the Biblical Languages: Time for a Rethink?
David J. A. Clines
The SBL in the Undergraduate Classroom: Pedagogical Refl ections
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
“Psalms Are Not Interesting”: Learner-Centered Approaches to Teaching Biblical Poetry and the Psalms
Charles William Miller

Part 3: Studies in Methods and Contexts
Revisiting the Composition of Ezra-Nehemah: A Prolegomenon
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Rome and the Early Church: Background of the Persecution of Christians in the First and Early Second Centuries
Paul J. Achtemeier
Do You Feel Comforted? M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs and the Book of Job
J. Cheryl Exum
Canaan, Land of Promise: An Ecological Reading of Genesis 10:15–20 in Context
Norman Habel
Revising the Myth of the “Biblical Family”: Refl ections on Issues of Methodologies and Interpretive Ideologies
Athalya Brenner
Clandestine Relationship: An Approach to the Song of Songs
Pablo R. Andinach
God’s Anthropos Project
James Luther Mays
Liberating Readings of the Bible: Contexts and Conditions
Erhard S. Gerstenberger

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Ritchel Ames>/b> is Professor of Medical Informatics and Director of Library Services at Rocky Vista University, Colorado’s new medical college, where he also teaches ethics. He is co-editor of Writing and Reading War: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts (Society of Biblical Literature).

Charles William Miller is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of North Dakota and previously taught at Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji. His research interests are primarily on the significance of social location for biblical interpretation. He has published in a range of journals, including Biblical Interpretation, Hawaiian Journal of History, and Journal of Religion and Society.