Todd Penner, Davina Lopez

De-Introducing the New Testament

Texts, Worlds, Methods, Stories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In De-Introducing the New Testament, the authors argue for a renewed commitment to the defamiliarizing power of New Testament studies and a reclaiming of the discipline as one that exemplifies the best practices of the humanities.
* A new approach that asks us to 'defamiliarize' what we think we know about the New Testament, articulating themes and questions about its study that encourage further reflection and engagement
* Looks behind the traditional ways in which the NT is "introduced" to critically engage the conceptual framework of the field as a whole
* Provides a critical intervention into several methodological impasses in contemporary NT scholarship
* Offers an appraisal of the relationship between economics and culture in the production of NT scholarship
* Written in a style that is clear and concise, ideal for student readership

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781405187688
• ISBN-10: 1405187689
• Artikelnr.: 42106679

Autorenporträt

Davina C. Lopez is the author of Apostle to the Conquered: Reimagining Paul's Mission (2008). Todd Penner is the author of Contextualizing Gender in Early Christian Discourse (with Caroline Vander Stichele, 2009) and In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography (2004). Both Lopez and Penner conducted research for this book as scholars-in-residence at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University between 2010 and 2011. In addition, they are both Senior Editors for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies (2014) and have co-authored numerous essays together related to method and its consequence for interpretation in the study of the New Testament.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix (De-)Introduction 1 Seeing Old Stones Anew 1 Introducing
the New Testament as Introducing Traditional New Testament Scholarship 4
Introducing Criticisms of Traditional New Testament Scholarship 9
Introducing De-Introducing the New Testament 17 1 The Order of New
Testament Things: Questioning Methods and Meanings 25 The Bone-Box of
James, "the Brother of Jesus" 25 Ways of Knowing a Subject of Study 31
Ordering Principles in the Study of the New Testament 35 Ways of Knowing
New Testament "Things" 62 2 Foregrounding New Testament Backgrounds:
Contextualizing Interpretation 71 Jew" or "Judean"? The Present Confronts
the Past 71 Introducing the New Testament: Making Meaning with the Context
76 Backgrounding the Backgrounds Approach 83 Backgrounding the Character of
Early Christianity: Liberty against Tyranny 97 Contexts Matter, Ancient and
Modern 110 3 Objects, Objectives, and Objectivities: Material and Visual
Culture and New Testament Studies 119 Of Fragments and Forgeries 119
Archaeology and the Making of Objects 122 Excavating Discourses that
Produce Ancient Objects 133 What Do We Do with Ancient Objects? 145 What Do
We Want with Ancient Objects? 160 4 Brand(ish)ing Biblical Scholars(hip):
New Testament Studies and Neoliberal Subjectivity 169 Who Can Be a "New
Testament Scholar?" 169 Neoliberalism and the Politics of Identity 173
Branding as a Practice of Neoliberal Subjectivity 183 Branding New
Testament Scholars(hip) 191 The One-Dimensional New Testament Scholar? 205
Back to the Future: Concluding Observations on History, Method, and Theory
in New Testament Studies 215 Index 000