The Reception of the Bible in the Construction of Masculinities in Jewish and Christian Con/Texts

The introduction to this special issue reviews the articles collected and presented in the volume. After an overview of the contents, the chapter turns to a more refined discussion of the insights resulting from the collection. These insights concern the productivity as well as limitations of canoni...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Making Men: The Reception of the Bible in the Construction of Masculinities in Jewish and Christian Con/Texts / Issue Editors: Ovidiu Creanga, Adriaan van Klinken, Jorunn Økland and Peter-Ben Smit
Authors: Smit, Peter-Ben 1979- (Author) ; Van Klinken, A. S. 1982- (Author) ; Creangă, Ovidiu 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2015
In: Journal of the bible and its reception
Year: 2015, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-143
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible / Reception / Masculinity / Gender studies / Judaism / Christianity / Islam
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
BJ Islam
CA Christianity
FD Contextual theology
HA Bible
Further subjects:B Islam
B Biblical Reception
B Early Christianity
B Bible
B Judaism
B Postcolonialism
B Christianity
B Gender
B Old Testament
B New Testament
B biblical masculinities
B Masculinities
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Summary:The introduction to this special issue reviews the articles collected and presented in the volume. After an overview of the contents, the chapter turns to a more refined discussion of the insights resulting from the collection. These insights concern the productivity as well as limitations of canonicity, the importance of contextuality, the embodied practice of masculinity and the subsequent need to acknowledge intersectionality, and finally, it problematizes the rhetoric of ‘tradition(al)’ or ‘biblical’ masculinity. Mapping the future of the study of biblical reception and masculinities, the introduction identifies key issues and areas for further research. These are the necessity of a greater emphasis on multidisciplinarity, the need to demonstrating hermeneutical self-awareness, and a broadening of the scope of the field to include the Qur’an and Muslim cultures as well as newly emerging forms of Christianity in the global South. These features are key to the study of the reception of biblical masculinities going forward.
ISSN:2329-4434
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2015-0011