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This volume brings together approaches to biblical interpretation that take the hermeneutical view that contextuality is a catalyst for interpretation. The book focuses on framing contextuality, key issues in contextual biblical interpretation, and theoretical resources for contextual biblical interpretation in the future.
List of contents
- Contextual Biblical Interpretation as a Challenge and a Chance
- PART I. Contextual Biblical Scholarship
- 1: Gerald West: 'Contextual Bible Study' as a Form of Liberation Biblical Interpretation: An Early Conceptual History
- 2: Charlene van der Walt: Reclaiming the Stolen Bible one Contextual Bible Study at a Time: Engaging African Lived Realities
- 3: Adriaan van Klinken and Johanna Stiebert: Challenging Contexts from the Lion's Den: Reading Daniel with Ugandan LBGT Refugees in Nairobi
- 4: Hannah Lewis: 'This is the Sign of the Lord': A Deaf/Disabled Liberation Perspective on Reading the Bible
- 5: Helen C. John: Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation
- 6: Hanzline R. Davids: Contextual Bible Reading in Practice: Reflections from the NGO Landscape on Sexual Diversity in Africa
- 7: Helen Cameron and Andrew P. Rogers: Theological Action Research in Conversation with Contextual Biblical Interpretation
- PART II. Challenging Biblical Scholarship
- 8: Wongi Park: From Monoracial to Multiracial Biblical Studies
- 9: Peter-Ben Smit: Diversifying the Field: Growing in Humanity
- 10: Louise J. Lawrence: Privilege, Marginality, Voice and Representation in Contextual Bible Studies and Contextual Biblical Interpretation
- 11: Klaas Spronk: Is God Revengeful? The History of Interpretation - a less welcome aspect of the image of God in the Book of Nahum
- 12: Knut Holter: 'Not a literary man, though very devoted to the Old Testament': Colonial and Contextual Biblical Interpretation vis-à-vis Africa
- 13: Safwat Marzouk: The Place of Place in Contextual Readings of the Bible: Egypt as a Case Study
- 14: An-Ting Yi: One Text to Rule Them All? Reflecting on New Testament Textual Criticism and Contextual Biblical Interpretation
- PART III. Chances for Biblical Scholarship
- 15: L. Juliana Claassens: Opening up Contexts: The Role of Popular Culture in Expanding the Meaning of Contextual Bible Study
- 16: Jeremy Punt: Contextual Biblical Interpretation and Theories of Masculinity: Beyond Exnomination
- 17: Marilou S. Ibita and Maricel S. Ibita: Biblical Ecological Trauma Hermeneutics in a Post-Haiyan Context
- 18: Fiona C. Black: Contextual Biblical Interpretation: Bodily Inflections and Affective Futures
- 19: James Crossley: Capitalism, Class, and the Bible: A Very English Proposal
- 20: Rebekah Hanson: Contextual Convergence in Digital Social Spaces
- 21: Hugh S. Pyper: The Absent Bible: Oaths of Office in Scotland and the United States
About the author
Louise Lawrence is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the University of Exeter.
Peter-Ben Smit is Professor of Contextual Biblical Interpretation at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and Professor (by special appointment) of Ancient Catholic Church Structures and the History and Doctrine of the Old Catholic Churches at Utrecht University.
Hannah M. Strømmen is Senior Lecturer in Bible, Politics, and Culture at Lund University, and currently holds a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship.
Charlene van der Walt is Honorary Associate Professor of Gender and Religion at the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Global Coordinator for Theological Education at Act Church of Sweden.
Summary
This volume brings together approaches to biblical interpretation that take the hermeneutical view that contextuality is a catalyst for interpretation. The book focuses on framing contextuality, key issues in contextual biblical interpretation, and theoretical resources for contextual biblical interpretation in the future.
