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Invention of the Biblical Scholar

A Critical Manifesto

by S Moore

  • Paperback
  • 120 pages
  • Publisher: Alban Books Ltd
  • 14.3 x 21.4 x 0.8 cm

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What is a "biblical scholar"? Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood provide a thoroughly defamiliarizing and frequently entertaining re-description of this peculiar academic species and its odd disciplinary habitat. The modern-and -biblical scholar, they argue, is a product of the Enlightenment. Even when a biblical scholar imagines that she is doing something else entirely (something confessional, theoretical, literary, or even postmodern), she is sustaining Enlightened modernity and its effects. This study poses questions for scholars across the humanities concerned with the question of the religious and the secular. It also poses pressing questions for scholars and students of biblical interpretation: What other forms might biblical criticism have taken? What untried forms might biblical criticism yet take?Contents Adobe Acrobat DocumentPreface Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter 1 Adobe Acrobat DocumentSamples require Adobe Acrobat ReaderHaving trouble downloading and viewing PDF samples?"A lively and readable survey of the engagement of literary and biblical studies with Theory, that is, postmodern theories. The authors challenge biblical scholars to engage Theory to understand our own disciplinary history, and thereby widen our horizons and free ourselves to be more broadly intellectually relevant. I encourage biblical scholars and graduate students to take up the challenge."-Joanna DeweyHarvey H. Guthrie, Jr. Professor Emerita of Biblical StudiesEpiscopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts"No one is more conversant in literary Theory than Moore and Sherwood, who have for some time been smuggling it into biblical studies in creative ways. As literary critics become less enamored of the promise of Theory, Moore and Sherwood see new possibilities for biblical scholars to move beyond the modernist obsession with 'the Enlightenment Bible' and engage theorists who are 'getting religion.' Their critique is sometimes caustic, always right-on; their manifesto points beyond traditional historical-critical methods, identity politics, and 'contextualization' for its own sake to a new, genuine universality that may shape the future of our discipline."-Richard HorsleyDistinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion, retiredUniversity of Massachusetts, Boston"Tongue-in-cheek and down-to-earth, this manifesto pairs clarity with a personal voice. A breath of fresh air, it makes everyone interested in being a "good" biblical scholar sit on edge. Sit tight! It's worth it."-Mieke BalAcademy ProfessorRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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  • Author

    S Moore

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Alban Books Ltd

  • Published

    April 2011

  • Weight

    223g

  • Page Count

    120

  • Dimensions

    14.3 x 21.4 x 0.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780800697747

  • ISBN-10

    080069774X

  • Eden Code

    3969401

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