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Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies

Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies

Paperback

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences

General Christianity

ISBN10: 9004424040
ISBN13: 9789004424043
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 28 2019
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
While postmodernism remains an ambiguous and messy phenomenon to represent, it also remains a compelling prophetic voice in the ongoing development of contemporary biblical studies. In Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies, Andrew P. Wilson tracks the various strands of postmodernism threaded through the discipline, drawing on a range of evocative biblical readings as well as key examples from the art world. Wilson demonstrates that the scholarly entanglement with postmodern theory provides a valuable critical sensibility to biblical readings, and referring to specific examples from reception history, one that has the potential to showcase biblical studies at its best. When it comes to reading practices, scholarly voices and identities, postmodern theory shows that biblical scholarship is ethically oriented and has an expansive sense of the text and textual effects. Wilson plots the distinctive ways in which postmodern theory has shaped scholarship of the bible while continuing to beckon in unanticipated ways from unexpected vantage points.

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