{"title":"Review of John Granger Cook, Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2014","authors":"D. Tombs","doi":"10.2104/BCT.V13I1.678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/BCT.V13I1.678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44900516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Jione Havea, Margaret Aymer, and Steed Vernyl Davidson (eds.), Island, Islanders and the Bible: RumInations, Atlanta, GA, Society of Biblical Literature, 2015","authors":"H.-G. Camilla Belfon","doi":"10.2104/bct.v13i1.681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/bct.v13i1.681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46470051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This volume brings together twenty years of Stephen Moore’s negotiations with Revelation, and is created to act as a “freestanding companion” (9) to his collected essays, The Bible in Theory: Critical and Post Critical Essays (2010). For those familiar with Moore’s work, there will be few surprises since, despite the title Untold Tales, each essay (barring the introduction), has appeared in previous publications. So here is the key appeal of this volume: to see Moore’s essays on Revelation feed off and into each other, each prefaced with his own reflective introduction.
{"title":"Review of Stephen D. Moore, Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation: Sex and Gender, Empire and Ecology, Atlanta, SBL, 2014","authors":"Michelle C. Fletcher","doi":"10.2104/BCT.V13I1.679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/BCT.V13I1.679","url":null,"abstract":"This volume brings together twenty years of Stephen Moore’s negotiations with Revelation, and is created to act as a “freestanding companion” (9) to his collected essays, The Bible in Theory: Critical and Post Critical Essays (2010). For those familiar with Moore’s work, there will be few surprises since, despite the title Untold Tales, each essay (barring the introduction), has appeared in previous publications. So here is the key appeal of this volume: to see Moore’s essays on Revelation feed off and into each other, each prefaced with his own reflective introduction.","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45117591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Craig R. Koester, Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, The Anchor Yale Bible 38a, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2014","authors":"Lindsey M. Guy","doi":"10.2104/BCT.V13I1.680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/BCT.V13I1.680","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47700995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Discourses of Empire, Hans Leander examines the Gospel of Mark from two discrete imperial contexts: European colonialism and Roman imperialism. After an introductory unit (Part I) outlining the intersection between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies, as well as highlighting the core heuristic concepts within postcolonial theory that prove methodologically significant, Leander moves through seven Markan pericopes from the vantage of the two aforementioned settings (Part II & III). A selection of German and English nineteenth-century commentators facilitates Leander’s study of the intersection between biblical studies and identity constructions moulded by European colonialism (Part II), which is then, in turn, juxtaposed with a reading of Mark’s own location and selfunderstanding vis-à-vis the Roman Empire (Part III). Leander’s aim in this dual focus is to “uninherit” (72) the nineteenth-century colonial heritage from modern scholarship.
{"title":"Review of Hans Leander, Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2013","authors":"W. Campbell","doi":"10.2104/BCT.V12I2.671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/BCT.V12I2.671","url":null,"abstract":"In Discourses of Empire, Hans Leander examines the Gospel of Mark from two discrete imperial contexts: European colonialism and Roman imperialism. After an introductory unit (Part I) outlining the intersection between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies, as well as highlighting the core heuristic concepts within postcolonial theory that prove methodologically significant, Leander moves through seven Markan pericopes from the vantage of the two aforementioned settings (Part II & III). A selection of German and English nineteenth-century commentators facilitates Leander’s study of the intersection between biblical studies and identity constructions moulded by European colonialism (Part II), which is then, in turn, juxtaposed with a reading of Mark’s own location and selfunderstanding vis-à-vis the Roman Empire (Part III). Leander’s aim in this dual focus is to “uninherit” (72) the nineteenth-century colonial heritage from modern scholarship.","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67578190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chester Brown’s graphic novel Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus reinterprets 10 different biblical stories, followed by an afterword and extensive notes. Brown argues Jesus supported prostitutes and advocated against blind obedience to God. While he references various biblical scholars in his notes--most notably Jane Schaberg, Yoram Hazony, and John Dominic Crossan--Brown is not formally trained as a biblical scholar. Indeed, this book might better stand in for a short novel or the Sunday comics than for a scholarly monograph. (But, who doesn’t enjoy reading the Sunday comics?) In this review, rather than lamenting or detailing Brown’s lack of scholarly training, I will attempt to bracket some of these concerns and assess Mary Wept on its many merits. Brown’s background as a graphic novelist with a keen interest in Christianity allows him to produce a fascinating artistic work that tackles theological and social concerns regarding sex, prostitution, and obedience in early Christian history. His comics are known for their thorough notes and citations, and, happily, Mary Wept is no exception as Brown quotes a number of historians and biblical scholars in his intriguing research. Several of his reinterpretations focus on the women mentioned in Gospel of Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus—Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary—in order to highlight the ways all of these women could be seen as prostitutes or as engaging in prostitute-like behaviour. (One of the book’s later vignettes depicts Matthew himself finding inspiration for how to hide the clue of Mary’s true identity as a prostitute within this genealogy) The focus on these women expands to the questioning of religious obedience and laws more broadly. This is seen particularly in Brown’s reinterpretations of Cain and Abel, the anointing of Jesus, and Jesus’s parables concerning the talents and the prodigal son. By asserting the presence of prostitutes in several biblical stories, he ultimately presents a view that could be quite liberating, not only for modern sex workers, but also for individuals who feel alienated by a perceived Christian tradition that fears sexuality and advocates strict adherence to rules and norms.
{"title":"Review of Chester Brown, Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, New York, Drawn & Quarterly, 2016","authors":"A. Fox","doi":"10.2104/BCT.V12I2.670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/BCT.V12I2.670","url":null,"abstract":"Chester Brown’s graphic novel Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus reinterprets 10 different biblical stories, followed by an afterword and extensive notes. Brown argues Jesus supported prostitutes and advocated against blind obedience to God. While he references various biblical scholars in his notes--most notably Jane Schaberg, Yoram Hazony, and John Dominic Crossan--Brown is not formally trained as a biblical scholar. Indeed, this book might better stand in for a short novel or the Sunday comics than for a scholarly monograph. (But, who doesn’t enjoy reading the Sunday comics?) In this review, rather than lamenting or detailing Brown’s lack of scholarly training, I will attempt to bracket some of these concerns and assess Mary Wept on its many merits. Brown’s background as a graphic novelist with a keen interest in Christianity allows him to produce a fascinating artistic work that tackles theological and social concerns regarding sex, prostitution, and obedience in early Christian history. His comics are known for their thorough notes and citations, and, happily, Mary Wept is no exception as Brown quotes a number of historians and biblical scholars in his intriguing research. Several of his reinterpretations focus on the women mentioned in Gospel of Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus—Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary—in order to highlight the ways all of these women could be seen as prostitutes or as engaging in prostitute-like behaviour. (One of the book’s later vignettes depicts Matthew himself finding inspiration for how to hide the clue of Mary’s true identity as a prostitute within this genealogy) The focus on these women expands to the questioning of religious obedience and laws more broadly. This is seen particularly in Brown’s reinterpretations of Cain and Abel, the anointing of Jesus, and Jesus’s parables concerning the talents and the prodigal son. By asserting the presence of prostitutes in several biblical stories, he ultimately presents a view that could be quite liberating, not only for modern sex workers, but also for individuals who feel alienated by a perceived Christian tradition that fears sexuality and advocates strict adherence to rules and norms.","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67578137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The six essays in The Bible & Critical Theory 11.2 (2015) brilliantly demonstrate the scholarship that characterizes an emerging area in Religious Studies—let’s call it critical biblical studies, or more broadly, critical scriptural studies. This work analyzes the way biblical texts reflect and sustain contemporary and ancient power dynamics, political regimes, cultural norms, violences, performative practices, as well as resistances. In its attempt to critique dominant structures, critical biblical studies differs from other important areas of biblical study, those more bounded in their aims (such as solely historical, literary, or theoretical approaches); further, it resists the transcendent closure of using the Bible for theological construction. The subfield has been developing for some time. The Bible & Critical Theory has been an important platform for it, along with Postscripts: A Journal for Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, the Institute for Signifying Scripture, and a growing number of sections at the Society of Biblical Literature, including the many perspectival, contextual, philosophical, and ideological critical sections. The Babylon Complex (Runions 2014), was written with the benefit of these conversations, and I am grateful to be able to respond to these productive engagements with it.
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This is the third monograph in which Carmichael makes the case that what appear to be laws in the Torah are best thought of as corrective commentary in response to problems (mostly of an ethical or cultic kind) in the narratives of Genesis–2 Kings (but Genesis in particular). Whereas the two earlier volumes (Carmichael 1997 and 2006) focus on Leviticus, this one is concerned primarily with Numbers, “the least researched of the books that make up the Pentateuch, [which] presents a puzzling combination of law and narrative” (vii).
{"title":"Review of Calum Carmichael, The Book of Numbers: A Critique of Genesis, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2012","authors":"J. Stiebert","doi":"10.2104/BCT.V12I2.668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/BCT.V12I2.668","url":null,"abstract":"This is the third monograph in which Carmichael makes the case that what appear to be laws in the Torah are best thought of as corrective commentary in response to problems (mostly of an ethical or cultic kind) in the narratives of Genesis–2 Kings (but Genesis in particular). Whereas the two earlier volumes (Carmichael 1997 and 2006) focus on Leviticus, this one is concerned primarily with Numbers, “the least researched of the books that make up the Pentateuch, [which] presents a puzzling combination of law and narrative” (vii).","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67578128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As readers of this journal are no doubt aware, biblical texts are to be found on both sides of violent struggle. On the one hand, they have provided spiritual, theological, and ideological nourishment for those engaged in fights against injustice, exploitation, and the abuses of power. On the other hand, the Bible has frequently been weaponized to justify domination over the subjugated classes and exacerbate the exclusion of the marginalized. For Roland Boer, this double-edged function of the Bible speaks to the crux of Christianity as caught in a complex tension between reaction and revolution (2012, 225). Religious texts are themselves imbued with multiple layers of divinely-sanctified violence. Their canonization and authorization as sacred Scripture has destined violence once safely contained within the page or scroll to seep out and wreak havoc on the world around us.
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{"title":"Review of Claudia V. Camp, Ben Sira and the Men Who Handle Books: Gender and the Rise of Canon-Consciousness, Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013","authors":"F. Landy","doi":"10.2104/BCT.V12I2.667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/BCT.V12I2.667","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67578117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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