Reception History and Biblical Studies : Theory and Practice

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Table of Contents Introduction Explorations in the of the Bible Emma England and Lyons History, Historical-Criticism, and Biblical Studies Ch. 1. Biblical Studies on Holiday? A Personal View of History. Susan Gillingham, University of Oxford, UK Ch. 2 What is reception history, and what happens to you if you do it? James E. Harding, University of Otago, New Zealand Ch. 3 The End of History, a Grand Narrative for Biblical Studies and the Neoliberal Bible. James G. Crossley, University of Sheffield, UK Ch. 4 Visitors, Gatekeepers and Receptionists: Reflections on the shape of Biblical Studies and the role of reception history. Jonathan Morgan, University of Chester, UK Conceptualising History Ch. 5 The Head of and its or How to Conceptualize Reception History. Caroline Vander Stichele, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ch. 6 What Can a Text Do? History as an Ethology of the Biblical Text. Brennan Breed, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA Ch. 7 The End of Biblical Interpretation-the Beginning of History? Reading the Bible in the Spaces of Literature Samuel Tongue, University of Glasgow, UK Ch. 8 History of the Bible: Prospects of a new frontier in African biblical studies. Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, ZEGU, Zimbabwe Implications, Difficulties and Solutions Ch. 9 Unlikely Bedfellows: Lenin, Calvin and Nick Cave. Roland Boer, University of Newcastle, Australia Ch. 10 Tracing Patmos Through the Centuries. Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, USA Ch. 11 Digital Humanities and History or the Joys and Horrors of Databases. Emma England, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ch. 12 Layers of of Jephthah's Daughter (Judges 11) Among the AmaNazaretha: From the Early 1900s to Today. Gerald West, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Bible, and Popular Music Ch. 13 The story of Leonard Cohen's Who By Fire, a prayer in the Cairo Genizah, Babylonian astrology and related rabbinical texts. Helen R. Jacobus, University College London, UK Ch. 14 Time to cut him down to size? A Critical Examination of Depeche Mode's Alternative John of Patmos. William Lyons, University of Bristol, UK Ch. 15 God, God Part II, and God Part III: Exploring the Anxiety of Influence in Lennon, U2, and Larry Norman. Michael J. Gilmour, Providence University, Canada Ch. 16 High, Low and In Between: History and the Sociology of Religion and Popular Music. Ibrahim Abraham, University of Helsinki. Finland Index