Reception history and biblical studies : theory and practice /

Reception history and biblical studies : theory and practice / [print] edited by Emma England and William John Lyons. - London : Bloomsbury T and T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, (c)2015. - x, 280 pages ; 24 cm. - Scriptural traces : critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible ; 6 Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 615 T & T Clark library of biblical studies . - Scriptural traces ; 6. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 615. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. .



Explorations in the reception of the Bible Biblical studies on holiday? : a personal view of reception history What is reception history, and what happens to you if you do it? / James E. Harding -- The end of reception history, a grand narrative for biblical studies and the neoliberal Bible Visitors, gatekeepers and receptionists : reflections on the shape of biblical studies and the role of reception history The head of John and its reception or how to conceptualize 'reception history' / Caroline Vander Stichele -- What can a text do? : reception history as an ethology of the biblical text The end of biblical interpretation - the beginning of reception history? : reading the Bible in the spaces of literature Reception history of the Bible : prospects of a new frontier in African biblical studies Unlikely bedfellows : Lenin, Calvin and Nick Cave Tracing Patmos through the centuries Digital humanities and reception history; or the joys and horrors of databases Layers of reception of Jephthah's daughter (Judges 11) among the AmaNazretha : from the early 1900s to today The story of Leonard Cohen's 'Who by fire', a prayer in the Cairo Genizah, Babylonian astrology and related rabbinical texts 'Time to cut him down to size?' : a critical examination of Depeche Mode's alternative 'John of Patmos' / William John Lyons -- 'God', 'God part II' and 'God part III' : exploring the anxiety of influence in John Lennon, U2 and Larry Norman High, low and in-between : reception history and the sociology of religion and popular music Emma England and William John Lyons -- Susan Gillingham -- James G. Crossley -- Jonathan Morgan -- Brennan Breed -- Samuel Tongue -- Masiiwa Ragies Gunda -- Roland Boer -- Ian Boxall -- Emma England -- Gerald O. West -- Helen R. Jacobus -- Michael J. Gilmour -- Ibrahim Abraham.

How do we begin to carry out such a vast task - the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of examples of reception history practitioners at work and of their reflections, this volume sets the agenda for biblical reception, as it begins to chart the near-infinite series of complex interpretive 'events' that have been generated by the journey of the biblical texts down through the centuries.



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Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.
Bible--Hermeneutics.

BS476.L991.R434 2015 BS476