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

• Main Author: Cuéllar, Gregory L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.