Key contributions to scholarship in biblical studies that engages or is influenced by cultural studies are presented in this volume of critical readings. The volume focuses on harder to locate foundational pieces and presents them in line with more recent studies to situate and trace the revolution in biblical studies that led rise to the wealth of work in reception history and the study of cultural engagements with the bible. As a result the volume provides a grounding in key theoretical perspectives, and history of scholarship as well as an orientation to the discipline as it is now.
As with other volumes in the Critical Readings series the volume features a general introduction, as well as introductions each section of the book: theoretical underpinnings, characters and passages in popular culture, motifs and methods, film and television. These introductions situate and frame the readings for readers and researchers. At the end of each section is an annotated bibliography of further readings, which will prompt further research and discussion.
Author(s): Robert Seesengood
Series: T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies
Publisher: T&T Clark
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 432
City: London
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Original Publications
Introduction
Part I: The Theoretical and Critical Basis of Cultural Studies
Chapter 1: Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies
Chapter 2: What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?
Chapter 3: Cultural Studies: An Introduction
Chapter 4: Introduction: In Debt to the Censor
Chapter 5: Graves of Craving: Fast Food, or, Manna and McDonald’s
Part II: Bible and Cultural Studies
Chapter 6: Jezebel Revamped
Chapter 7: Bathsheba Plotted, Shot, and Painted
Chapter 8: How the West Was Not One: Delilah Deconstructs the Western
Chapter 9: Dracula: “The Blood Is the Life!”
Part III: Cultural Studies and the Bible
Chapter 10: House Readings and Field Readings: The Discourse of Slavery and Biblical/Cultural Studies
Chapter 11: The Bible John Murders and Media Discourse, 1969-1996
Chapter 12: The World’s Largest Ten Commandments
Chapter 13: Almost Cultural Studies?: Reflections on the “New Perspective” on Paul
Chapter 14: The Selfish Text: The Bible and Memetics
Part IV: Television and Film
Chapter 15: Sitcom Mythology
Chapter 16: Gospels of Death
Chapter 17: Why Girls Cry: Gender Melancholia and Sexual Violence in Ezekiel 16 and Boys Don’t Cry
Chapter 18: Reading “This Woman” Back into John 7:1–8:59: Liar Liar and the “Pericope Adulterae” in Intertextual Tango
Part V: Next Stages
Chapter 19: The Question of the Animal
Chapter 20: From Affect to Exegesis
Chapter 21: Citizens of Fallen Cities: Ruins, Diaspora, and the Material Unconscious
Chapter 22: Seven Stations of Affect: Religion, Affect, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ
Chapter 23: Introduction to Critical Race Theory
Chapter 24: Freedom Is No Fear: The New Testament and a Theology of Policing
Chapter 25: What We Talk about When We Talk about Samson
Index
