Reception history and biblical studies : theory and practice / edited by Emma England and William John Lyons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

England, Emma, editor.

Lyons, William John, editor.

Series:

Scriptural traces ; 6.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 615.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Scriptural traces : critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible ; 6

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 615

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

Bible.

History.

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

x, 280 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

Summary:

How do we begin to carry out such a vast task - the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of examples of reception history practitioners at work and of their reflections, this volume sets the agenda for biblical reception, as it begins to chart the near-infinite series of complex interpretive 'events' that have been generated by the journey of the biblical texts down through the centuries.

Contents:

Explorations in the reception of the Bible / Emma England and William John Lyons

Biblical studies on holiday? : a personal view of reception history / Susan Gillingham

What is reception history, and what happens to you if you do it? / James E. Harding

The end of reception history, a grand narrative for biblical studies and the neoliberal Bible / James G. Crossley

Visitors, gatekeepers and receptionists : reflections on the shape of biblical studies and the role of reception history / Jonathan Morgan

The head of John and its reception or how to conceptualize 'reception history' / Caroline Vander Stichele

What can a text do? : reception history as an ethology of the biblical text / Brennan Breed

The end of biblical interpretation - the beginning of reception history? : reading the Bible in the spaces of literature / Samuel Tongue

Reception history of the Bible : prospects of a new frontier in African biblical studies / Masiiwa Ragies Gunda

Unlikely bedfellows : Lenin, Calvin and Nick Cave / Roland Boer

Tracing Patmos through the centuries / Ian Boxall

Digital humanities and reception history; or the joys and horrors of databases / Emma England

Layers of reception of Jephthah's daughter (Judges 11) among the AmaNazretha : from the early 1900s to today / Gerald O. West

The story of Leonard Cohen's 'Who by fire', a prayer in the Cairo Genizah, Babylonian astrology and related rabbinical texts / Helen R. Jacobus

'Time to cut him down to size?' : a critical examination of Depeche Mode's alternative 'John of Patmos' / William John Lyons

'God', 'God part II' and 'God part III' : exploring the anxiety of influence in John Lennon, U2 and Larry Norman / Michael J. Gilmour

High, low and in-between : reception history and the sociology of religion and popular music / Ibrahim Abraham.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index.

ISBN:

9780567660084

0567660087

OCLC:

908433002