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The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto - Softcover

Moore, Stephen D.

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9780800697747: The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto
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ISBN 10: 080069774X ISBN 13: 9780800697747
Publisher: Fortress Press, 2011

Synopsis

What is a "biblical scholar"? Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood provide a thoroughly defamiliarizing and frequently entertaining redescription of this peculiar academic species and its odd disciplinary habitat. The modernand biblical scholar, they argue, is a product of the Enlightenment. Even when a biblical scholar imagines that she is doing something else entirely (something confessional, theoretical, literary, or even postmodern), she is sustaining Enlightened modernity and its effects. This study poses questions for scholars across the humanities concerned with the question of the religious and the secular. It also poses pressing questions for scholars and students of biblical interpretation: What other forms might biblical criticism have taken? What untried forms might biblical criticism yet take?

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About the Author

Stephen D. Moore is Professor of New Testament at the Theological School at Drew University and author of Poststructuralism and the New Testament (1994, 9780800625993).

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Publisher
Fortress Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
080069774X
ISBN 13 
9780800697747
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
120
Editor
Sherwood Yvonne
Rating
  • 3.83 out of 5 stars
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