De-introducing the New Testament : texts, worlds, methods, stories /

• Main Author: Penner, Todd C.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
• Subjects: Bible. > New Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. > New Testament > Historiography.; Bible. > New Testament > Hermeneutics.; Bible. > New Testament -- Introductions.; Bible. > New Testament.; Bible readings.; Religion.; Hermeneutics.; Historiography.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

The critical focus in De-Introducing the New Testament on the modernist genre of writing and type of intellectual-cultural-political practice that is the "Introduction to the New Testament" is long overdue and much needed. The writers are bold and expansive in their critique and in their p...

Table of Contents:

• The order ofNew Testament things: questioning methods and meanings
• Foregrounding New Testament backgrounds: contextualizing interpretation
• Objects, objectives, and objectivities: material and visual culture and New Testament studies
• Brand(ish)ing biblical scholars(hip): New Testament studies and neoliberal subjectivity
• Back to the future: concluding observations on history, method, and theory in New Testament studies.