The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biblical Studies by de Sousa, Rodrigo; Shively, Elizabeth E.;

Short description:

This volume offers a foundational resource for understanding, practicing, and teaching interdisciplinarity in biblical studies, fostering informed, reflective, and critically responsible engagement across disciplinary boundaries.

Long description:

This volume offers a foundational resource for understanding, practicing, and teaching interdisciplinarity in biblical studies, fostering informed, reflective, and critically responsible engagement across disciplinary boundaries.

Part I explores the conceptual, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions of interdisciplinarity, providing readers with conceptual tools for assessing how interdisciplinary approaches are articulated, justified, and implemented within biblical scholarship, while also attending to questions of academic formation, institutional practices, and even ethical standards. Part II provides introductory overviews of major disciplinary intersections with biblical studies. Each chapter introduces a specific field—ranging from Papyrology and Literary Studies to Cognitive Science and Digital Humanities—and includes a worked example that demonstrates how that discipline can be applied to the biblical corpus. Taken together, the contributions to this Handbook offer a panoramic view of the contemporary interdisciplinary landscape in biblical studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biblical Studies is a comprehensive reference work suitable for students and scholars working in all areas of biblical studies, particularly those who are unfamiliar with interdisciplinarity or who wish to explore new avenues in their research.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - Rodrigo de Sousa and Elizabeth E. Shively; Part I: Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice; 1. Constructing an object of study: What do ‘Biblical Studies’ study? - Rebekah Van Sant; 2. What is Interdisciplinarity? An Introduction, Overview, and Justification of the Concept for Biblical Studies - A K M Adam; 3. The Structure of Disciplines and Methods in the Study of Ancient Literature - William A. Tooman; 4. Interdisciplinarity in the Study of the Hebrew Bible: Issues and Debates - Hugh Pyper; 5. Issues and Debates: “Disciplining” Interdisciplinarity in New Testament Studies - Louise J. Lawrence; 6. Biblical Studies and the Scholarly Imagination of Religion - Luigi Walt; 7. Scripture as the primary intertext of theology - Frederike Van Oorschot; 8. Teaching Interdisciplinarity and Teaching Interdisciplinarily: Four Points, Three Steps, and Two Poems - Brent A. Strawn; 9. Building Interdisciplinary Higher Education Programs - Alison Jack; Part II: Interdisciplinarity in Approach; 10. The Visual Commentary on Scripture: Interdisciplinary in Practice - Michelle Fletcher and Jennifer Sliwka; 11. Archaeology and Material Culture - Benjamin D. Gordon; 12. Art, Iconography, and Aesthetics - Laura Quick; 13. Classics - Antonella Bellantuono; 14. Cognitive Science - István Czachesz; 15. Intersectionality - Marianne Bjelland Kartzow; 16. Digital Humanities - Soham Al-Suadi; 17. Disability Studies - Louise A. Gosbell; 18. Biblical Ecological Hermeneutics - Maricel S. Ibita; 19. Critical Race Theory - Wongi Park; 20. Gender Studies - Davina C. Lopez; 21. History - Babett Edelmann-Singer; 22. Historical Geography - Chris McKinny; 23. Linguistics - Stanley E. Porter; 24. Literary Studies - Jan Rüggemeier; 25. Screening Scripture: The Bible and Film - Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; 26. Memory Theory - Sandra Huebenthal; 27. Migration Studies - Jina Kang; 28. Modern Philosophy - Jaco Gericke; 29. Papyrology - Thomas J. Kraus; 30. Psychology - Joanna Collicutt; 31. Performance Studies - Kelly R. Iverson; 32. Political Theory - Rudolf von Sinner and Luiz José Dietrich; 33. Engaging hegemony and/of the Bible: Postcolonial biblical studies - Jeremy Punt; 34. Queer Theory - Jimmy Hoke; 35. Reception Studies - Andrew Mein; 36. Greco-Roman Rhetoric - Ben Witherington, III; 37. Ritual Studies - Gerard Rouwhorst; 38. Sociology - Christopher Porter; 39. Theological Interpretation - Mark W. Elliott; 40. Trauma Hermeneutics - Elizabeth Boase.