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March 29, 2017
Transforming Graduate Biblical Education: Ethos and Discipline
- Author
- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, author, ed., Kent Harold Richards, ed.
- Publisher
- Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, GA
- ISBN
- 9781589835047
- Table of Contents
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Abbreviations
Introduction: Transforming Graduate Biblical Studies: Ethos and Discipline
Part I: Changing The Ethos of Graduate Biblical Studies
ch. 1 From "Mono" - to "Multi" - Culture: Reflections on a Journey (Elaine M. Wainwright)
ch. 2 Cross-Textural Biblical Studies in Multiscriptural Contexts (Archie C. C. Lee)
ch. 3 Social Location: Dis-ease and/or Dis-cover(y) (Yakhwee Tan)
ch. 4 Taking Spaces Seriously: The Politics of Space and the Future of Western Biblical Studies (Abraham Smith)
ch. 5 Biblical Studies and Public Relevance: Hermeneutical and Pedagogical Consideration in Light of the Ethos of the Greater China Region (GCR)
(Phillip Chia)
Part 2: Cultural-National Locations of Graduate Biblical Studies
ch. 6 Graduate Studies Now: Some Reflections from Experience (Athalya Brenner)
ch. 7 Graduate Biblical Studies in India (Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon)
ch. 8 Biblical Study in Korea in the Twenty-First Century (Kyung Sook Lee)
ch. 9 The Practice and Ethos of Postgraduate Biblical Education: A Glance at Europe and in Particular Switzerland (Gabriella Gelardini)
Part 3: New Voices From The Margins
ch. 10 Biblical Studies: A View from the Feminist Margins and the Jewish Fringes (Cynthia M. Baker)
ch. 11 On the Fringes of the "Big Tent" of Graduate New Testament Studies (Thomas Fabisiak)
ch. 12 Giving an Account of a Desirable Subject: Critically Queering Graduate Biblical Education (Joseph A. Marchal)
ch. 13 To a Black Student in First-Year Hebrew (Nyasha Junior)
ch. 14 Intoxicating Teaching as Transformational Pedagogy (Wil Gafney)
ch. 15 Beyond Socialization and Attrition: Border Pedagogy in Biblical Studies (Roberto Mata)
Part 4: Transforming The Curriculum
ch. 16 Redesigning the Biblical Studies Curriculum: Toward a "Radical-Democratic" Teaching Model (Susanne Scholz)
ch. 17 Biblical Studies for Ministry: Critical and Faithful Interpretation of Scripture in an Either/Or World (Cynthia Briggs Kittredge)
ch. 18 Placing Meaning-Making at the Center of New Testament Studies (Hal Taussig, Brigitte Kahl)
ch. 19 Mapping the Field, Shaping the Discipline: Doctoral Education as Rhetorical Formation (Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre)
ch. 20 The Work We Make Scriptures Do for Us: An Argument for Signifying (on) Scriptures as Intellectual Project (Vincent L. Wimbush)
ch. 21 Breadth and Depth: A Hope for Biblical Studies (Kent Harold Richards)
Appendix
Rethinking The Educational Practices of Biblical Doctoral Studies (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
Contributors
This unique collection of essays, originating in seminars held at SBL’s Annual and International Meetings, explores the current ethos and discipline of graduate biblical education from different social locations and academic contexts. It includes international voices of well-established scholars who have urged change for some time alongside younger scholars with new perspectives. The individual contributions emerge from a variegated set of experiences in graduate biblical studies and a critical analysis of those experiences. The volume is divided into four areas of investigation. The first section discusses the ethos of biblical studies and social location, and the second explores different cultural-national formations of the discipline. The third section considers the experiences and visions of graduate biblical studies, while the last section explores how to transform the discipline. All the contributions offer ways to transform graduate biblical education so that it becomes a socializing power that, in turn, can transform the present academic ethos of biblical studies. (From the Publisher)