The Museum of the Bible : a critical introduction / edited by Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon ; foreword by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hicks-Keeton, Jill, 1983- editor.

Concannon, Cavan W., 1979- editor.

Moss, Candida, 1978- writer of foreword.

Baden, Joel S., 1977- writer of foreword.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum of the Bible.

Bible--Museums.

Bible.

Bible--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2019.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, [2019]

Summary:

Bringing together nationally and internationally known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the newly opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and wrestles with the thorny interpretive issues and complex histories that are at risk of being obscured when private funds put a major museum on the National Mall.

Contents:

Cover; The Museum of the Bible; The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Introduction; What's the Bible Good For?; Chapter 1; "It's Complicated." "No, It's Not."; Hidden in Plain Sight; Universal Dissemination, Threat of Repression; The Bible's Agency versus that of its Interpreters; From Slavery to Civil Rights and Beyond; The Bible's Authority To Resolve Conflict; Translation as Child's Play; The Museum's "Mission" as a "Problem"; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2; Exploring Race, Religion, and Slavery at the Museum of the Bible

The Bible in AmericaThe American Jeremiad; Reimagining Slave Religion and the Bible; Bringing African American Hermeneutics to the Museum of the Bible; Conclusion; Notes; The Museum of Whose Bible?; Chapter 3; Christian Supersessionism and the Problem of Diversity at the Museum of the Bible; Between Stories and Narrative: From Many to One; Whose History? From the Particular to the Universal; Conclusions: Can Today's Bible Organize History?; Notes; Chapter 4; Looking at the Bible Sideways; Many Names, but One Bible?; Imagining a Museum of the Jewish Bible; Notes; Chapter 5; Smoke and Mirrors

Example 1: The Creation Story (Gen. 1-3)Example 2: The Books of Judges and Ruth; Example 3: The "Ezra Reveal"; Conclusion; Notes; Archaeology, Israel, and the "Reliability" of the Bible; Chapter 6; Theo-Politics, Archaeology, and the Ideology of the Museum of the Bible; Archaeology and the Bible: A Brief History; Driving Thru History; Archaeology and The World of Jesus of Nazareth; This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7; The Land of Israel and Bodily Pedagogy at the Museum of the Bible; MOTB as a Museum Space; MOTB in Context: Christian Space

Explore!: The MOTB and PilgrimageExcavating the Land of Israel; Replicating the Land of Israel; Conclusion; Notes; Materiality, Text, and the Production of Scripture; Chapter 8; Editing without Interpreting; Editing Without Interpreting: A Brief History of Textual Criticism; The Facts of the Case: Eclectic Texts and Christian Certainty; The MOTB and the Future of New Testament Textual Criticism; One Final Thought; Notes; Chapter 9; The Green Papyri and the Museum of the Bible; Papyri, Papyrology, and the Antiquities Market: A Brief History and Introduction

"We are Story Tellers First": Steve Green and the reasons for collectingThe Indiana Jones of Biblical Archaeology: Scott Carroll and the Formation of the Green Papyrus Collection; The Question of Provenance; The Roles of Academics: The Green Scholars Initiative and its Legacy; The Present and Future of the Green Papyrus Collection; Notes; Chapter 10; Christian Dead Sea Scrolls?; The Materiality and Immateriality of Relics; Exhibiting the Post-2002 Fragments; Conclusion; Notes; Christian Nationalism and the Bible in America; Chapter 11

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-2042-4

1-9787-0283-3

OCLC:

1105988311