De-Introducing the New Testament - Texts, Worlds, Methods, Stories
Published on 24. April 2015
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256 pages
978-1-118-43294-5 (ISBN)
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In De-Introducing the New Testament, the authors argue for a renewed commitment to the defamiliarizing power of New Testament studies and a reclaiming of the discipline as one that exemplifies the best practices of the humanities. * A new approach that asks us to defamiliarize what we think we know about the New Testament, articulating themes and questions about its study that encourage further reflection and engagement * Looks behind the traditional ways in which the NT is introduced to critically engage the conceptual framework of the field as a whole * Provides a critical intervention into several methodological impasses in contemporary NT scholarship * Offers an appraisal of the relationship between economics and culture in the production of NT scholarship * Written in a style that is clear and concise, ideal for student readership
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-43294-5 (9781118432945)
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04/2015
Wiley-Blackwell
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04/2015
Wiley-Blackwell
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Person
Davina C. Lopez is the author of Apostle to the Conquered: Reimagining Paul's Mission (2008). Todd Penner is the author of Contextualizing Gender in Early Christian Discourse (with Caroline Vander Stichele, 2009) and In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography (2004). Both Lopez and Penner conducted research for this book as scholars-in-residence at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University between 2010 and 2011. In addition, they are both Senior Editors for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies (2014) and have co-authored numerous essays together related to method and its consequence for interpretation in the study of the New Testament.
Content
Acknowledgments ix (De-)Introduction 1 Seeing Old Stones Anew 1 Introducing the New Testament as Introducing Traditional New Testament Scholarship 4 Introducing Criticisms of Traditional New Testament Scholarship 9 Introducing De-Introducing the New Testament 17 1 The Order of New Testament Things: Questioning Methods and Meanings 25 The Bone-Box of James, the Brother of Jesus 25 Ways of Knowing a Subject of Study 31 Ordering Principles in the Study of the New Testament 35 Ways of Knowing New Testament Things 62 2 Foregrounding New Testament Backgrounds: Contextualizing Interpretation 71 Jew or Judean ? The Present Confronts the Past 71 Introducing the New Testament: Making Meaning with the Context 76 Backgrounding the Backgrounds Approach 83 Backgrounding the Character of Early Christianity: Liberty against Tyranny 97 Contexts Matter, Ancient and Modern 110 3 Objects, Objectives, and Objectivities: Material and Visual Culture and New Testament Studies 119 Of Fragments and Forgeries 119 Archaeology and the Making of Objects 122 Excavating Discourses that Produce Ancient Objects 133 What Do We Do with Ancient Objects? 145 What Do We Want with Ancient Objects? 160 4 Brand(ish)ing Biblical Scholars(hip): New Testament Studies and Neoliberal Subjectivity 169 Who Can Be a New Testament Scholar? 169 Neoliberalism and the Politics of Identity 173 Branding as a Practice of Neoliberal Subjectivity 183 Branding New Testament Scholars(hip) 191 The One-Dimensional New Testament Scholar? 205 Back to the Future: Concluding Observations on History, Method, and Theory in New Testament Studies 215 Index 000