RT Article
T1 Apostles of Revolution?: Marxism and Biblical Studies
JF Brill research perspectives in Biblical interpretation
VO 4
IS 1
SP 1
OP 80
A1 Petterson, Christina 1972-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1745527761
AB Marxist analysis of the bible is spreading, but clarity about what constitutes Marxist readings and Marxist categories of analysis is lacking. This lack of clarity is compounded by the different strands and factions within Marxist politics, which have subtle resonances in biblical scholarship. These issues are canvassed in the first part of the article. The major focus of the article, however, is the collaboration between biblical studies and liberal ideology, which is examined in two ways. First, by presenting and discussing some of the central Marxist categories of analysis, namely history, ideology and class, and how these categories have been co-opted into biblical studies and in the process lost their radical edge. Second, by discussing the emergence of the discipline of biblical studies during the Enlightenment, and to what extent the containment strategies of biblical studies overlap with those of liberalism and capitalism.
K1 Biblical Studies
K1 Marxism
K1 Capitalism
K1 Ideology
K1 History
K1 Class
K1 Neo/Liberalism
DO 10.1163/24057657-12340015