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

Contributor(s): Boer, Roland, 1961- | Segovia, Fernando F
Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia studies: no. 66.Publisher: Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xxv, 382 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781589837034 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 1589837037 (pbk. : acid-free paper)Subject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 220.07 LOC classification: BS511.3 | .F88 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-382).
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- The future of a nonexistent past : biblical studies in Bulgaria / Milena Korova -- Unity and diversity in Nordic biblical scholarship / Hanna Stenström -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-382).

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.

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