De-Introducing the New Testament : texts, worlds, methods, stories / Todd Penner and Davina C. Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penner, Todd C., author.

Lopez, Davina C., 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible--New Testament.

Bible--New Testament--Introductions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The critical focus in <i>De-Introducing the New Testament</i> on the modernist genre of writing and type of intellectual-cultural-political practice that is the "Introduction to the New Testament" is long overdue and much needed. The writers are bold and expansive in their critique and in their proposals. Their book merits serious attention. I hope it provokes sustained rethinking and reorientation.<br /><b>Vincent L. Wimbush, Institute for Signifying Scriptures </b>

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; (De-)Introduction; Seeing Old Stones Anew; Introducing the New Testament as Introducing Traditional New Testament Scholarship; Introducing Criticisms of Traditional New Testament Scholarship; Introducing De-Introducing the New Testament; Notes; Chapter 1 The Order of New Testament Things: Questioning Methods and Meanings; The Bone-Box of James, "the Brother of Jesus"; Ways of Knowing a Subject of Study; Ordering Principles in the Study of the New Testament; Origins and linear development; Stability, definability, and simplicity

Consistency and coherenceDifference, distinctiveness, and identity; Ways of Knowing New Testament "Things"; Notes; Chapter 2 Foregrounding New Testament Backgrounds: Contextualizing Interpretation; "Jew" or "Judean"? The Present Confronts the Past; Introducing the New Testament: Making Meaning with the Context; Backgrounding the Backgrounds Approach; Backgrounding the Character of Early Christianity: Liberty against Tyranny; Early Christianity and Jewish law; Early Christianity and Roman rule; Contexts Matter, Ancient and Modern; Notes

Chapter 3 Objects, Objectives, and Objectivities: Material and Visual Culture and New Testament StudiesOf Fragments and Forgeries; Archaeology and the Making of Objects; Excavating Discourses that Produce Ancient Objects; What Do We Do with Ancient Objects?; What Do We Want with Ancient Objects?; Notes; Chapter 4 Brand(ish)ing Biblical Scholars(hip): New Testament Studies and Neoliberal Subjectivity; Who Can Be a "New Testament Scholar?"; Neoliberalism and the Politics of Identity; Branding as a Practice of Neoliberal Subjectivity; Branding New Testament Scholars(hip)

Identity and social location: ethnic exegesis and beyondMethodological Identitarianism; "Public" scholarship; The One-Dimensional New Testament Scholar?; Notes; Back to the Future: Concluding Observations on History, Method, and Theory in New Testament Studies; "Think, McFly! Think!"; The Role of the Critic and the Critical Impulse; Revisiting the Role of the New Testament Historical Critic; Concluding De-Introductory Thoughts; Notes; Index; EULA

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 9, 2015).

ISBN:

1-118-43294-0

1-118-43296-7

OCLC:

907610256