Genesis of the Bible Documentary: The Development of Religious Broadcasting in the UK

The broadcasting world is currently undergoing a revolution. The new technologies of cable and, more importantly, satellite broadcasting have brought within reach an enormous potential expansion and diversity in broadcasting. The Broadcasting Act 1990 is the government's response to the challenge, creating a mostly new regulatory framework. Alongside technological advance there has been a growing concern with regulating programme quality, as the creation of the Broadcasting Standards Commission (placed by Pt. V of the Act on a statutory footing) bears witness. A minor, but not insignificant, place in these cross-currents of ferment is occupied by religious broadcasting. This article seeks to place the controls and duties relating to religious broadcasting under the new regime within the context of its history in the UK and to consider the extent to which the new legal and administrative controls achieve an acceptable balance between religious expression and control of standards.

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Reading for Readiness

Journal of Education and Christian Belief ◽

10.1177/205699719800200108 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 65-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

William K Kay ◽

Richard Wilkins

Keyword(s):

Primary School ◽

Religious Education ◽

School Age ◽

The Bible ◽

The Uk ◽

Primary School Age

On the basis of a consideration of the processes of reading and comprehending and in the light of the UK Government's literacy drive, it is argued that Religious Education ought to be better equipped to present the Bible to children of primary school age.

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The New Interpreters' Dictionary of the Bible. Volume 4 Me‐R2010307General Editor Katharine Doob Sankenfeld. The New Interpreters' Dictionary of the Bible. Volume 4 Me‐R. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press 2009. xxvii+950 pp., ISBN: 978 0 687 33375 2 £56.99; $85.00 (volume price) Distributed in the UK by Alban Books. Review based on Vol. 4 of a five‐volume set; the entire set is also available on CD‐ROM, priced at $400

Reference Reviews ◽

10.1108/09504121011077101 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (7) ◽

pp. 14-15

Author(s):

Graham Cornish

Keyword(s):

Cd Rom ◽

The Bible ◽

The Uk

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt

10.3828/liverpool/9781874774587.001.0001 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Louis Jacobs

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Jewish People ◽

The United States ◽

The Other ◽

Reasonable Doubt ◽

The Bible ◽

Conservative Judaism ◽

The Uk ◽

New London ◽

Traditional Doctrine

More than forty years have passed since the author first put forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no reason to take issue with the results obtained by the historical critics in their investigation into the Bible and the other classical sources of Judaism. The author has argued that the traditional doctrine which claims that ‘the Torah is from Heaven’ can and should be maintained — provided that the word ‘from’ is understood in a non-fundamentalist way to denote that there is a human as well as a divine element in the Torah: God revealing His will not only to but through the Jewish people in their historical experiences as they reached out to Him. As a result of these views, which were first published in the still-controversial text We Have Reason to Believe, the Anglo-Jewish Orthodox hierarchy banned the author from serving as an Orthodox rabbi. This was the cause of the notorious ‘Jacobs affair’, which culminated in the creation of the New London Synagogue and, eventually, in the establishment of the Masorti movement in the UK with strong affinities with Conservative Judaism in the United States. This book examines afresh all the issues involved. It does so objectively, meeting the objections put forward by critics from the various trends within the Jewish world, both Orthodox and Reform, and inviting readers to follow the argument and make up their own minds.

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The Bible and Feminism

10.1093/oso/9780198722618.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Biblical Studies ◽

Political Issues ◽

The Bible ◽

Second Amendment ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Us ◽

The Veil ◽

The Uk ◽

Roe V Wade ◽

Sexual Trafficking

This groundbreaking book breaks with established canons and resists some of the stereotypes of feminist biblical studies. A wide range of contributors—from the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, East Africa, South Africa, Argentina, Israel, Hong Kong, the US, the UK, and Iran—showcase new methodological and theoretical movements such as feminist materialisms; intersectionality; postidentitarian ?nomadic? politics; gender archaeology; lived religion; and theories of the human and the posthuman. They engage a range of social and political issues, including migration and xenophobia; divorce and family law; abortion; ?pinkwashing?; the neoliberal university; the second amendment; AIDS and sexual trafficking; Tianamen Square and 9/11; and the politics of ?the veil?. Foundational figures in feminist biblical studies work alongside new voices and contributors from a range of disciplines in conversations with the Bible that go well beyond the expected canon-within-the-canon assumed to be of interest to feminist biblical scholars. Moving beyond the limits of a text-orientated model of reading, they look at how biblical texts were actualized in the lives of religious revolutionaries, such as Joanna Southcott and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In important interventions—made all the more urgent in the context of the Trump presidency and Brexit—they make biblical traditions speak to gun legislation, immigration, the politics of abortion, and Roe v. Wade.

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