Asian Readings of the Bible: a North American Feminist Response

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-376
Author(s):  
Sharon H. Ringe
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
The Bible

Practicing Biblical Literacy

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-196
Author(s):  
Iona C. Hine ◽  
Nicky Hallett ◽  
Carl Tighe ◽  
José Luis Lopez Calle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
North American ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Biblical Literacy ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The University

When and how does the Bible enter the classroom? In May 2011, the department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield hosted a conference on the role of the Bible in secondary and higher education. This paper addresses the notion of biblical literacy, providing an account of the emergent practices discussed, with in-depth treatment of three case studies.The examples are drawn from the fields of English Literature, Economics, and Creative Writing. The different role of the Bible in education in North American and British contexts is also considered, and the article concludes with considerations for future collaboration.

10. The Bible in high and popular culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
John Riches
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
North American ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Musical Representations

‘The Bible in high and popular culture’ reflects on how the Bible has had a formative influence on the language, the literature, the art, and the music of all the major European and North American cultures. It continues to influence popular culture in films, novels, and music. From elaborate retellings of the narratives in great novels and in musical representations like Bach’s St Matthew Passion, through Rembrandt’s intimate depictions of biblical scenes and narratives, to echoes of biblical metaphor and motifs in poetry and fiction, there is a huge range of use. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) provides a powerful contemporary example. It comments directly on the Bible’s role in the struggle of women.

You want me to talk to whom? Explorations in fear and faith from the underside of the Bible

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Felicia Howell LaBoy
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
North American ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
North American Society ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Key Players ◽  
American Society ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This article utilizes an African American/womanist biblical hermeneutic that focuses on the intersectionality of the key players in the text to conduct an exegetical analysis of Philip’s encounter with the Ethiopian official found in Acts 8:26–40. Likening Philip’s encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch to the experience of racial ethnic scholars, this article also summarizes the process by which they “speak truth to power” in predominantly white academic institutions. Finally, this article argues that this process can serve as a model for how the theological academy might enable the Christian Church to speak to increasingly disenfranchised, but once privileged, whites in an increasingly post-Christian and more diverse North American society.

The Career of Puritan Jurisprudence

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Political Office ◽  
Core Idea

Scholars have long asked to what extent there was a distinctive Puritan jurisprudence in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Purita n jurisprudenceis a shorthand that refers to those elements of seventeenth-century Massachusetts's laws and institutions designed or selected because of the early colony's religious commitments. Among the fundamentals of Puritan jurisprudence were the integrated and determined use of legal and ecclesiastical institutions to foster a godly community, the importance of the Bible as a touchstone for the legitimacy of rules, and a constitutional order restricting colony-wide voting and political office to regenerate members of covenanted churches. Some historians speak of “Puritan justice” or “Puritan legal culture” rather than “Puritan jurisprudence.” Differing in detail and emphasis, these formulations point to a core idea animating much writing about early Massachusetts: that the colony lived by a legal order distinctive by the standards of contemporary England and her North American and Caribbean colonies and strongly shaped by Puritan religious commitments and social thought.

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