Title: Transforming graduate biblical education : ethos and discipline /
Authors: Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-; Richards, Kent Harold, 1939-; Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Bible Hermeneutics Study and teaching.; Theology Study and teaching (Graduate); Theology Study and teaching
Abstract: This uniques collection of essays, originating in seminars held at SBL's Annual and International Meetings, explores the current ethos and discipline of graduate biblical education from different social locations and academic contexts. It includes international voices of well-established scholars who have urged change for some time alongside younger scholars with new perspectives. The individual contributions emerge from a variegated set of experiences in graduate biblical studies and a critical analysis of those experiences. The volume is divided into four areas of investigation. The first section discusses the ethos of biblical studies and social location, and the second explores different cultural-national formations of the discipline. The third section considers the experiences and visions of graduate biblical studies, while the last section explores how to transform the discipline. All the contributions offer ways to transform graduate biblical education so that it becomes a socializing power that, in turn, can transform the present academic ethos of biblical studies. (Back cover).
Contents: Pt. 1. Changing the ethos of graduate biblical studies. From "mono"- to "multi"-culture : reflections on a journey / Elaine M. Wainwright -- Cross-textual biblical studies in multiscriptural contexts / Archie C.C. Lee -- Social location : dis-ease and/or dis-cover(y) / Yak-hwee Tan -- Taking Spaces seriously : the politics of space and the future of Western biblical studies / Abraham Smith -- Biblical studies and public relevance : hermeneutical and pedagogical consideration in light of the ethos of the Greater China Region (GCR) / Philip Chia -- Pt. 2. Cultural-national locations of graduate biblical studies. Graduate studies now : some relections from experience / Athalya Brenner -- Graduate biblical studies in India / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon -- Biblical study in Korea in the twenty-first century / Kyung Sook Lee -- The practice and ethos of postgraduate biblical education : a glance at Europe and in particular Switzerland / Gabriella Gelardini.