On Scholarship and Related Animals: A Personal View from and for the Here and Now

This address sets out my personal experience as a bible student and scholar in the last four decades. I begin with an extended case study of biblical passages about and around Jezebel, revisiting her story in biblical text and interpretation, with the aim of achieving some generalized understanding...

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Main Author: Brener-ʿIydan, ʿAtalyah 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Scholar's Press [2016]
In: Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2016, Volume: 135, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-17
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Feminist theology / Jezebel Israel, Queen / Research / History 1980-2015
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
Further subjects:B Jews
B Scholarships
B Bible. Old Testament
B MISSOURI State University (Springfield, Mo.)
B STRONG, John
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:This address sets out my personal experience as a bible student and scholar in the last four decades. I begin with an extended case study of biblical passages about and around Jezebel, revisiting her story in biblical text and interpretation, with the aim of achieving some generalized understanding of the process of Hebrew bible scholarship as practiced today by the diverse and diversified members of our guild, those strange "animals" of my title. After giving a chronological overview of selected Jezebel interpretations, I move to my own assessment, then from reading criticism into metacriticism. I attempt to glean from this journey insights into the development of bible criticism mainly through feminist scholarship, and leading into scholarship and the role of SBL in the contemporary world of media and the ramifications of the "Big Tent" approach.
ISSN:1934-3876
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1351.2016.1352