What Does Theology Do, Actually?

Phillip A. Jr. Davis; Daniel Lanzinger; Matthew Ryan Robinson

doi:10.5771/9783374071968

Summary

Exegesis has long been characterized by a broad disciplinary diversity, but also ambiguity – combining biblical studies, exegesis, early Jewish studies, early Christian studies, Ancient Near Eastern studies, Greco-Roman, and classical studies in various ways. This is to say nothing of the more recent development of contextual and engaged exegesis as reflected in feminist, liberation, postcolonial and queer Biblical exegesis. Furthermore, how and why scholars study the Bible varies, not only across confessional or cultural contexts, but across institutional-academic contexts. The book engages these complex methodological questions about the interrelations of context, institutions, and knowledge production in relation to such issues as religious belonging, ethnicity, political identity, and postcolonial pasts, among other issues of contemporary importance.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-374-07195-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-374-07196-8
Publisher: EVA, Leipzig
Language: English
Pages: 291
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 14
Introduction No access Pages 15 - 24
1. Online Exegetical Teaching: Responses Among Malagasy People and Churches No access
2. Speaking Responsibly about Biblical Texts: Historical-Critical Exegesis as (more than) a Translation No access
3. Plague, Pandemic, Divine/Human Interactions, Communities, and Beliefs: Some Reflections in Times of Corona No access
1. Bible and Method: Perennial Questions, Useful Stratagems, and Scholarly Homes No access
2. Is it in the Bible?: Re-Negotiating Five Biblical Interpretive Boundaries No access
3. Jesus and the Liberal Academy: From First Century Jew to Twenty-First Century Anti-Fascist No access
4. Postcolonial Exegesis: A Perspective or Bias? No access
1. The Catholic Understanding of Scripture No access
2. Contemplative Reading of the Scriptures in the Context of Ecumenical Retreats No access
1. In Search of Theophilus: Reading the Bible in Twenty-First Century Germany No access
2. From the Streets to the Scriptures: ‘‘Liberating Exegesis’’ in Hong Kong No access
3. White Privilege in Biblical Scholarship and Church: A First Critical Exploration No access
1. Towards Marginality and Transversality: On the Challenges of Biblical Studies in Latin America No access
2. The Bible and Its Interpreters: Assessing the Future of Biblical Interpretation from a West African Context No access
3. Navigating Exegetical Plurality: The Pursuit of Philosophical Themes in the Hebrew Bible No access
4. So What?: On Hermeneutics, Perspectives, and Questioning the Self-Evident No access
Contributors No access Pages 287 - 291