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Bringing together nationally and internationally-known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary positions, including biblical studies, history, archaeology, Judaic studies, and religion and public life. The Museum of the Bible is poised to wield unparalleled influence on the national popular imagination of the Bible’s contents, history, and uses through time. This volume provides critical tools by which a broad public of scholars and students alike can assess the Museum of the Bible’s presentation of its vast collection and wrestle with the thorny interpretive issues and complex histories that are at risk of being obscured when private funds put a major museum near the National Mall.
Table des matières
Foreword Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden
Introduction Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon
I. What's the Bible Good For?
Chapter 1 "It's Complicated." "No It's Not." : The Museum of the Bible, Problems and Solutions
Margaret M. Mitchell
Chapter 2 Exploring Race, Religion, and Slavery at the Museum of the Bible
Terrence L. Johnson
II. The Museum of Whose Bible?
Chapter 3 Christian Supersessionism and the Problem of Diversity at the Museum of the Bible
Jill Hicks-Keeton
Chapter 4 Looking at the Bible Sideways: One Jewish Scholar's Perspective Marc Zvi Brettler
Chapter 5 Smoke and Mirrors: The Hebrew Bible Exhibit at the Museum of the Bible
Mark Leuchter
III. Archaeology, Israel, and the "Reliability" of the Bible
Chapter 6 Theopolitics, Archaeology, and the Ideology of the Museum of the Bible
Cavan Concannon
Chapter 7 The Land of Israel and Bodily Pedagogy at the Museum of the Bible
Sarah F. Porter
IV. Materiality, Text, and the Produc
A propos de l'auteur
Jill Hicks-Keeton is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Oklahoma.Cavan Concannon is associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California.Cavan Concannon is associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California.Jill Hicks-Keeton is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Oklahoma.
Résumé
Bringing together nationally and internationally known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the newly opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and wrestles with the thorny interpretive issues and complex histories that are at risk of being obscured when private funds put a major museum on the National Mall.
