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Challenging Contextuality : Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context, Hardback Book

Challenging Contextuality : Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context Hardback

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Challenging Contextuality: Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context provides a new and innovative contribution to the study of biblical texts by bringing together current approaches to biblical interpretation.

The volume sets the agenda for the future of the field and provides a synthesis of approaches to date.

In doing so, it aligns itself with the broadly shared hermeneutical conviction that contextuality is a catalyst for interpretation.

This applies in equal measure to approaches and methods that are often framed as 'traditional' or 'mainstream' (e.g. the methodological canon of the historical critical approach as the offspring of the European Enlightenment) and those that are often dubbed 'contextual' (e.g. forms of feminist or 'indigenous' interpretation). The volume grounds contextual biblical interpretation within the broader landscape of biblical studies, and the chapters are all interested in the contexts in which bibles are read.

Rather than a series of examples of contextual biblical interpretation, this book is concerned with what it means to do contextual biblical interpretation, how contextual biblical interpretation challenges biblical scholarship, and what chances there are for this mode of inquiry.

What contexts are engaged and elucidated when it comes to bible-use?

What contexts are made visible and invisible? How can different contexts be theorized and understood?

The volume argues that it is not context that matters, rather, contemporary contexts should be a challenge and a chance for biblical scholarship, its present and its future.

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