This paper considers how a newly emergent biobible radically invests bodily functions, bodily matter, and bodies in and as capital. In conservative Christian family-values commentary on marriage, sexuality, and reproduction, reference to biology is on the rise. Biblical arguments for heterosexual marriage and sanctity of life are supported by biological language and imaging. These discourses reflect, respond to, and contribute to what scholars have called biocapital, that is, the increased commodification of biological materials and technologies. Biology is biblically elevated and given increased value, feeding biocapital. Indeed emphasis on biology has come to edge out or make subordinate more traditional religious language of interiority, spirituality and emotional life, making them unimportant, or provisionally important, displaced onto the future wellbeing of biological children raised in heterosexual, white families.These developments are traced in conservative Christian discussions of same-sex marriage, assisted reproductive technology, abortions, and prison ministry.
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Have you ever asked yourselves: what can the holiday of a workaholic Calvinist be like? Here is one among many answers possible: he writes a book of “fleshly readings” of the Bible in order to explicate “how crude it really is and indeed can be.” Roland Boer’s “The Earthy Nature of the Bible” is research in a territory, into which a few writers have ventured thus far. It is an innovative, sometimes even shocking, display of unorthodox practices of biblical hermeneutics, such as: “discussion of terms for testicles, of the pervasive but futile spermatic spluttering pen(is) of the prophets; engagements with the sexuality of flora and fauna; hooker hermeneutics, fairy queens and anal dildos; Jeremiah the masturbator, Ezekiel the autofellating prophet; prophetic hygrophilia; and the bestial and necrophiliac practices of the Hittites” (1). The scandalous matter and the language of perversion conceal the fact that it is a case of a sound and conceptually holistic project whose very aim is to scandalize and provoke the inveterate traditions of biblical scholarship. It is accomplished in a broad interdisciplinary space where biblical, cultural and gender studies—just to name some of the main areas of knowledge— are crossing paths. The interpretation of biblical texts takes place along the methodological lines of three “materialist” theories: psychoanalysis, Marxism and ecocriticism (materialism of the psyche, materialism of history, materialism of nature). The landmarks of theoretical authority are Freud and Lacan, with the extension of Slavoj Žižek; Claude Levy-Strauss and Louis Althusser, Antonio Negri and Antonio Gramsci. Yet the all-pervading methodological assumption is that of Marxism, a frame of knowledge, which “is ingrained so deeply in my thought,” Boer admits, “that it shows up in the fabric of almost every sentence” (2).
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There has been a great deal of soul-searching of late in the Biblical Studies “guild” and around its edges as to the identity and proper goals of the discipline, if indeed there still exists a single discipline at all. This soul-searching has been prompted by a wide array of factors. One factor has been the proliferation of different methodological approaches in the later decades of the twentieth century and early years of the twenty-first, all accompanied by a concomitant efflorescence of interpretive perspectives and philosophical standpoints. Such newer approaches, perspectives, and standpoints entail different understandings of the respective roles of subjectivity and objectivity in the process of interpreting biblical texts. More recently we have also seen a burgeoning of reception-historical approaches to biblical texts (classical and ancient Near Eastern texts have also benefited from such treatment) which have emerged to challenge the hitherto dominant historicalcritical paradigms of the guild. Much of this, though by no means all, has taken place within the privileged and hallowed halls of the Western academy (or at least to a significant degree under its influence) and falls within the purview of what Alissa Jones Nelson terms “academic” or “idea-primary” (1) approaches. These approaches are dominated by readers trained in the languages, methods and ruling questions that have long shaped and determined the character and purpose of the Biblical Studies guild.
最近，在圣经研究“行会”中，有大量的自我反省，围绕着它的边缘，关于这门学科的身份和正确目标，如果确实存在一个单一的学科的话。这种自我反省是由一系列因素引起的。其中一个因素是，在20世纪后期和21世纪初期，不同的方法论方法激增，所有这些都伴随着解释性观点和哲学立场的蓬勃发展。这些新的方法、观点和立场需要对解释圣经文本过程中主观性和客观性各自的作用有不同的理解。最近，我们也看到了对圣经文本(古典和古代近东文本也受益于这种处理)的接受历史方法的蓬勃发展，这些方法已经出现，挑战了公会迄今为止占主导地位的历史批判范式。其中的大部分，虽然不是全部，都发生在享有特权和神圣的西方学术殿堂中(或者至少在很大程度上受其影响)，并属于Alissa Jones Nelson所说的“学术”或“思想初级”(1)方法的范畴。这些方法是由受过语言、方法和支配问题训练的读者主导的，这些问题长期以来塑造和决定了圣经研究协会的特点和目的。
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This article deals with one aspect of Joseph Stalin’s unrecognised contribution to redefining human nature. The larger whole of such a redefinition was what may be called an Augustinian awareness of the depth and pervasiveness of evil. The specific aspect on which I focus is the question of sin within that larger whole. The key distinction concerning sin is between the detection of sin in others and in oneself. While the former was relatively easier, the internal process was the more difficult, for it entailed the need for ‘criticism and self-criticism’ – that is, admission, confession, repentance and, where necessary, punishment. The surprise of this emphasis, in which sin is understood in relation to the socialist project and the party, is that the personal dimension of sin was a new departure in a Russian Orthodox context, providing one element of the development of a socialist counter-tradition. The focus of this study is relatively rare in our times: careful and detailed attention to Stalin’s texts and thought.
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Review of Colin Cremin, Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism , London, Pluto, 2015.
书评科林·克雷明，《总计:从资本主义的残骸中拯救未来》，伦敦，冥王星，2015年。
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With this issue, the review section of Bible & Critical Theory begins a new series of “Books and Culture” review essays. Alongside traditional scholarly book reviews of select new titles in biblical studies, these review essays will feature critical, scholarly engagements, written by established biblical scholars, of books and general culture which are not, per se, directly addressing “biblical scholarship.” At times, the intersection with biblical studies will arise because of an author’s use of Bible—implicit or explicit—in a creative or literary work. Others, however, will feature books that closely intersect with history, literature, economics and cultural studies, critical theory and philosophy, or other fields of scholarship of interest to readers of Bible & Critical Theory. Leading off the series is Peter J. Sabo’s fine engagement with Karl Knausgaard. We welcome your suggestions for books of interest and hope that you find these essays stimulating. Please address your comments and suggestions for future titles to review (or reviewers of interest) to the Book Review Editor, Robert Paul Seesengood, at the address provided by the journal. We hope you enjoy this series.
从本期开始，《圣经与批判理论》评论部分开始了新的“书籍与文化”系列评论文章。除了传统的圣经研究中精选新标题的学术书评外，这些评论文章将以由知名圣经学者撰写的批判性学术文章为特色，这些文章涉及的书籍和一般文化本身并不直接涉及“圣经学术”。有时，由于作者在创作或文学作品中含蓄或明确地使用圣经，会出现与圣经研究的交集。然而，其他书籍将与历史，文学，经济和文化研究，批判理论和哲学，或其他对圣经和批判理论的读者感兴趣的学术领域密切相关。该系列的开篇是Peter J. Sabo与Karl Knausgaard的精彩合作。我们欢迎您对感兴趣的书籍提出建议，并希望您发现这些文章令人兴奋。请按照杂志提供的地址，向书评编辑Robert Paul Seesengood提出您对未来要评论的图书(或感兴趣的书评人)的意见和建议。我们希望你喜欢这个系列。
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{"title":"Review of Seizo Sekine, Philosophical Interpretations of the Old Testament, trans. J. Randall Short, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2014","authors":"David J. Fuller","doi":"10.2104/BCT.V12I1.646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2104/BCT.V12I1.646","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Seizo Sekine, Philosophical Interpretations of the Old Testament , trans. J. Randall Short, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2014.","PeriodicalId":53382,"journal":{"name":"The Bible and Critical Theory","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67577287","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}
Review of Sarah Hammerschlag, The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought , Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
《形象犹太人:战后法国思想中的政治与身份》，芝加哥，芝加哥大学出版社，2010年。
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Biblical Performance Criticism is becoming an established discipline in Biblical Studies, and is an approach that is well suited to prophetic literature due to the embodied nature of prophetic messages, the assumption that there is an audience for the message, and the necessity for re-enactment in the light of new experience. This approach, however, lacks clear methodological guidelines. This paper proposes four methodological guidelines for reading biblical books as performances (performance-oriented translation; embodiment; dynamism; re-enactment), then applies those guidelines to the book of Jonah in order to highlight artistry, analysis, and activism in the performance of Jonah. A performance-oriented script of Jonah is provided as an appendix.
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