The Cultural World of the Bible

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Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 144122825X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cultural World of the Bible by : Victor H. Matthews

Download or read book The Cultural World of the Bible written by Victor H. Matthews and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of a successful book (over 120,000 copies sold), now updated throughout, a leading expert on the social world of the Bible offers students a reliable guide to the manners and customs of the ancient world. From what people wore, ate, and built to how they exercised justice, mourned, and viewed family and legal customs, this illustrated introduction helps readers gain valuable cultural background on the biblical world. The attractive, full-color, user-friendly design will appeal to students, while numerous pedagogical features--including fifty photos, sidebars, callouts, maps, charts, a glossary of key terms, chapter outlines, and discussion questions--increase classroom utility. Previously published as Manners and Customs in the Bible.

Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes

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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830875859
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes by : Kenneth E. Bailey

Download or read book Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels, examining the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women, and especially Jesus' parables. The work dispels the obscurity of Western interpretations with a stark vision of Jesus in his original context.

The Bible and Cultural Studies

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ISBN 13 : 9780567677648
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (776 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bible and Cultural Studies by : Robert Seesengood

Download or read book The Bible and Cultural Studies written by Robert Seesengood and published by . This book was released on with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Key contributions to scholarship in biblical studies that engages or is influenced by cultural studies are presented in this volume of critical readings. The volume focuses on harder to locate foundational pieces and presents them in line with more recent studies to situate and trace the revolution in biblical studies that led rise to the wealth of work in reception history and the study of cultural engagements with the bible. As a result the volume provides a grounding in key theoretical perspectives, and history of scholarship as well as an orientation to the discipline as it is now. As with other volumes in the Critical Readings series the volume features a general introduction, as well as introductions each section of the book: theoretical underpinnings, characters and passages in popular culture, motifs and methods, film and television. These introductions situate and frame the readings for readers and researchers. At the end of each section is an annotated bibliography of further readings, which will prompt further research and discussion."--

Bible In/and Popular Culture

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Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589834933
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis Bible In/and Popular Culture by : Philip Culbertson

Download or read book Bible In/and Popular Culture written by Philip Culbertson and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular culture, the Bible is generally associated with films: The Passion of the Christ, The Ten Commandments, Jesus of Montreal, and many others. Less attention has been given to the relationship between the Bible and other popular media such as hip-hop, reggae, rock, and country and western music; popular and graphic novels; animated television series; and apocalyptic fantasy. This collection of essays explores a range of media and the way the Bible features in them, applying various hermeneutical approaches, engaging with critical theory, and providing conceptual resources and examples of how the Bible reads popular culture—and how popular culture reads the Bible. This useful resource will be of interest for both biblical and cultural studies. The contributors are Elaine M. Wainwright, Michael Gilmour, Mark McEntire, Dan W. Clanton Jr., Philip Culbertson, Jim Perkinson, Noel Leo Erskine, Tex Sample, Roland Boer, Terry Ray Clark, Steve Taylor, Tina Pippin, Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, Caroline Vander Stichele, and Erin Runions.

Culture, Entertainment, and the Bible

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567228789
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Book Synopsis Culture, Entertainment, and the Bible by : George Aichele

Download or read book Culture, Entertainment, and the Bible written by George Aichele and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This topical volume deals with the adoption of biblical language and narrative and the presentation of 'biblical' images and themes in popular literature, art and mass media. The chapters, all written by experts in cultural studies of the Bible, explore how ideologies are produced, in various ways, when biblical texts are brought into play with each other, with other texts, and with the inevitable and continual demands for cultural and historical "translation"-or "recycling"-of the scriptures. The volume contains some theoretical reflections, but focuses on specific examples of cultural translation, and is directed primarily at advanced (graduate) students and scholars in biblical studies, popular studies, media studies, literature, and the arts, although some articles will also be of value and interest to introductory students and the general public. The contributors to this volume are Fiona Black, Susan Lochrie Graham, Chris Heard, Helen Leneman, Phyllis Silverman Kramer, Tina Pippin, Caroline Vader Stichele, Lori Rowlett, Erin Runions, Jan William Tarlin and Richard Walsh.

The Postmodern Bible

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068184
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis The Postmodern Bible by : George Aichele

Download or read book The Postmodern Bible written by George Aichele and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating--but often bewildering--new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today. Written by a collective of cutting-edge scholars--with each page the work of multiple hands--The Postmodern Bible deliberately breaks with the individualist model of authorship that has traditionally dominated scholarship in the humanities and is itself an illustration of the postmodern transformation of biblical studies for which it argues. The book introduces, illustrates, and critiques seven prominent strategies of reading. Several of these interpretive strategies--rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narratology, reader-response criticism, and feminist criticism--have been instrumental in the transformation of biblical studies up to now. Many--feminist and womanist criticism, ideological criticism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism--hold promise for the continued transformation of these studies in the future. Focusing on readings from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, this volume illuminates the current multidisciplinary debates emerging from postmodernism by exposing the still highly contested epistemological, political, and ethical positions in the field of biblical studies.

Created and Creating

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Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 1783595493
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis Created and Creating by : William Edgar

Download or read book Created and Creating written by William Edgar and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gospel of Jesus Christ is always situated within a particular cultural context: but how should Christians approach the complex relationship between their faith and the surrounding culture? Should we simply retreat from culture? Should we embrace our cultural practices and mindset? How important is it for us to be engaged with our culture and mindset? How might we do that with discernment and faithfulness? William Edgar offers a biblical theology in the light of our contemporary culture that contends that Christians should -- and indeed, must -- engage with the surrounding culture. By exploring what Scripture has to say about the role of culture and gleaning insights from a variety of theologians -- including Abraham Kuyper, T. S. Eliot, H. Richard Niebuhr and C. S. Lewis -- Edgar contends that cultural engagement is a fundamental aspect of human existence. He does not shy away from those passages that emphasize the distinction between Christians and the world. Yet he finds, shining through the biblical witness, evidence that supports a robust defence of the cultural mandate to 'be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it' (Genesis 1:28). With clarity and wisdom, Edgar argues that we are most faithful to our calling as God's creatures when we participate in creating culture. Introduction Part 1: Parameters of culture Part 2: Challenges from Scripture Part 3: The cultural mandate Epilogue

Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781850759706
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (597 download)

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Book Synopsis Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies by : J. Cheryl Exum

Download or read book Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies written by J. Cheryl Exum and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an international colloquium held at the University of Sheffield, this collection represents the first book-length encounter between biblical studies and the proliferating and controversial field of cultural studies. A multidisciplinary team of contributors engage in a multifaceted examination of the Bible's place in culture, ancient and modern, 'high' and 'low'. Contributors include Alice Bach, Fiona Black, Athalya Brenner, Robert Carroll, David Clines, Margaret Davies, Philip Davies, Philip Esler, Cheryl Exum, Yael Feldman, Jennifer Glancy, Jan Willem van Henten, David Jasper, Francis Landy, Barry Matlock, Stephen Moore, Hugh Pyper, John Rogerson, Regina Schwartz, William Scott, and Erich Zenger.

A Cultural Handbook to the Bible

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802867200
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural Handbook to the Bible by : John J. Pilch

Download or read book A Cultural Handbook to the Bible written by John J. Pilch and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes sixty-three subjects from the Bible from a cross-cultural perspective.

Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration

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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319966946
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration by : Efraín Agosto

Download or read book Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration written by Efraín Agosto and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conjunction between migration and biblical texts with a focus on Latinx histories and experiences. Essays reflect upon Latinxs, the Bible, and migration in different ways: some consider how the Bible is used in the midst of, or in response to, Latinx experiences and histories of migration; some use Latinx histories and experiences of migration to examine Biblical texts in both First and Second Testaments; some consider the “Bible” as a phenomenological set of texts that respond to and/or compel migration. Cultural, literary, and postcolonial theories inform the analysis, as does the exploration of how migrant groups themselves scripturalize their biblical and cultural texts.

Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes

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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830869328
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by : Kenneth E. Bailey

Download or read book Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians, Kenneth Bailey examines the canonical letter through Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and rhetorical background and through the Mediterranean context of its Corinthian recipients.

In Search of the Present

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (729 download)

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Book Synopsis In Search of the Present by : Stephen D. Moore

Download or read book In Search of the Present written by Stephen D. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319966952
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration by : Efraín Agosto

Download or read book Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration written by Efraín Agosto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conjunction between migration and biblical texts with a focus on Latinx histories and experiences. Essays reflect upon Latinxs, the Bible, and migration in different ways: some consider how the Bible is used in the midst of, or in response to, Latinx experiences and histories of migration; some use Latinx histories and experiences of migration to examine Biblical texts in both First and Second Testaments; some consider the “Bible” as a phenomenological set of texts that respond to and/or compel migration. Cultural, literary, and postcolonial theories inform the analysis, as does the exploration of how migrant groups themselves scripturalize their biblical and cultural texts.

The Bible, Social Media and Digital Culture

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429671512
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bible, Social Media and Digital Culture by : Peter M. Phillips

Download or read book The Bible, Social Media and Digital Culture written by Peter M. Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centres on the use of the Bible within contemporary digital social media culture and gives an overview of its use online with examples from brand-new research from the CODEC Research Centre at Durham University, UK. It examines the shift from a propositional to a therapeutic approach to faith from a sociological standpoint. The book covers two research projects in particular: the Twitter Gospels and Online Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It explores the data as they relate to Abby Day’s concept of performative belief, picking up on Mia Lövheim’s challenge to see how this concept works out in digital culture and social media. It also compares the data to various construals of contemporary approaches to faith performative faith, including Christian Smith and Melissa Lundquist Denton’s concept of moralistic therapeutic deism. Other research is also compared to the findings of these projects, including a micro-project on Celebrities and the Bible, to give a wider perspective on these issues in both the UK and the USA. As a sociological exploration of Digital Millennial culture and its relationship to sacred texts, this will be of keen interest to scholars of Biblical studies, religion and digital media, and contemporary lived religion.

American Standard

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118361601
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis American Standard by : Robert Paul Seesengood

Download or read book American Standard written by Robert Paul Seesengood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2029-02-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring a cultural-studies toolkit to bear on the world's most interpreted text The study of the Bible has adapted to the full range of analytical tools available to theologians, scholars, and researchers of every stripe. The marriage between cultural studies and Biblical studies has been especially fruitful, increasingly producing rich and provocative engagements with Biblical texts and contexts. Students of the Bible stand to profit significantly from a volume which illustrates the value of cultural studies approaches by putting these theories into practice. American Standard meets the needs of these students with a series of lively essays working through cultural-studies readings of specific Biblical texts. Drawing connections between the Bible and its modern settings, American popular culture, and more, it balances theory with direct close reading to provide an accessible introduction to the vast and varied landscape of cultural studies. American Standard readers will also find: An invaluable literature review of core cultural studies texts Detailed analyses incorporating fantasy gaming, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, American diet culture, and more An author with an extensive teaching and publishing history in cultural and Biblical studies American Standard is ideal for advanced undergraduate or seminary students taking courses in biblical interpretation, American religion, critical theory, or any related subjects.

The Bible in the Public Square

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Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781589839816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bible in the Public Square by : Mark A. Chancey

Download or read book The Bible in the Public Square written by Mark A. Chancey and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore perceptions and interpretations of scripture in American politics, identity, popular culture, and public education Essays from the perspectives of American history, the history of ideas, film studies, visual studies, cultural studies, education, and church-state studies provide essential research for those interested in the intersection of the Bible and American culture. The contributors are Yaakov Ariel, Jacques Berlinerblau, Mark A. Chancey, Rubén Dupertuis, John Fea, Shalom Goldman, Charles C. Haynes, Carol Meyers, Eric M. Meyers, David Morgan, Adele Reinhartz, and David W. Stowe. Features: Ten essays and an introduction present research from professors of biblical studies, Judaism, English, and history Articles relevant to scholars, students, and the general public Analysis of the tensions in American society regarding the Bible and its role in public life.

Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134799780
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies by : Timothy K. Beal

Download or read book Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies written by Timothy K. Beal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is often said to be one of the foundation texts of Western culture. The present volume shows that it goes far beyond being a religious text. The essays explore how religious, political and cultural identities, including ethnicity and gender, are embodied in biblical discourse. Following the authors, we read the Bible with new eyes: as a critic of gender, ideology, politics and culture. We ask ourselves new questions: about God's body, about women's role, about racial prejudices and about the politics of the written word. Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies crosses boundaries. It questions our most fundamental assumptions about the Bible. It shows how biblical studies can benefit from the mainstream of Western intellectual discourse, throwing up entirely new questions and offering surprising answers. Accessible, engaging and moving easily between theory and the reading of specific texts, this volume is an exciting contribution to contemporary biblical and cultural studies.