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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boer, Roland, 1961-

Segovia, Fernando F.

Series:

Semeia studies ; no. 66.

Semeia studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

xxv, 382 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, [2012]

Summary:

"What does global biblical studies look like in the early decades of the twenty-first century, and what new directions may be discerned? Profound shifts have taken place over the last few decades as voices from the majority of the globe have begun and continue to reshape and relativize biblical studies. With contributors from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, this volume is a truly global work, offering surveys and assessments of the current situation and suggestions for the future of biblical criticism in all corners of the world." -- BACK COVER.

Contents:

Introduction: The futures of biblical pasts

Part 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

Part 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

Part 3. Europe. The future of a nonexistent past : biblical studies in Bulgaria / Milena Korova

Unity and diversity in Nordic biblical scholarship / Hanna Stenström

Part 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

Part 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

Part 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 criticism : expanding the scope of biblical criticism / Fernando F. Segovia

Signifying on the fetish: mapping a new critical orientation / Vincent L. Wimbush.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-382).

ISBN:

9781589837034

1589837037

9781589837041

1589837045

158983724X

9781589837249

OCLC:

812729675