Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century Archival Criticism /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Cuéllar, Gregory L. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Bible-Theology.; Imperialism.; Ethnology-Europe.; Biblical Studies.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; British Culture.

Since the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs. Yet, absent in biblical scholarship is a thorough and critical examination of the instrumentality of the discipline's master archives for elite po...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Historicizing the Master Archive
• 2. Mastering Biblical History in the British Museum
• 3. Books and Bodies in the British Museum Reading Room
• 4. The Biblical Critic as Collector
• 5. Biblical Scholar as Imperial State Agent
• 6. Epilogue: Contextualizing a Museum of the Bible.