IVBS is a new Society of Biblical Literature book series available free online and for purchase in a paperback print edition.
The works published in this series will generally be in the area of reception history and criticism and will not be limited to any particular biblical text or historical timeframe. The works will mainly be published in English and, wherever possible, also in primary languages of authors.
Recent Publications
Jewish and Christian communities all over the world engage in biblical interpretation. Why, then, is it so difficult for biblical scholars from different parts of the globe to understand one another? Within the global enterprise of biblical studies and interpretation there are different centers and margins. This essay volume explores the global context within which our interpretations and studies take place. Three case studies from completely different parts of the world illustrate how interpretation takes place in their respective contexts. Before the volume ends with an afterword in which the knots of the book's arguments are tied, two scholars reflect on the consequences of global hermeneutics on biblical interpretation and translation respectively. This book—the first in a new online series started by the International Cooperation Initiative of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)—hopes to stimulate and facilitate a global hermeneutic in which centers and margins fade.
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Inter-regional
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Louis Jonker
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Knut Holter
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7/6/2010 6:08:00 PM
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Reading tu’a-wise (Tongan: lau faka-tu’a) is an attempt to interpret the Bible through the ‘eye-/I-s’ of a Tongan commoner (tu’a). The primary concern of this book is to develop, on the one hand, an ‘alter-native’ approach to biblical interpretation from a Tongan standpoint and to depart, on the other hand, from theories and methods that dominate biblical scholarship. Lau faka-tu’a puts more emphasis on contextualizing the “pact” of biblical interpretation rather than the Bible per se.
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Pacific
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Nasili Vaka'uta
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11/2/2011 9:28:47 PM
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This volume collects reflective, analytical and exegetical contributions to the newly developing discipline of Biblical Spirituality. Biblical Spirituality interests itself in how aspects of faith come to expression within biblical texts, and how modern expressions of faith interact with those texts. The author, with doctorates in Religious Communications and Old Testament Exegesis, analyses proposals that have been made in this regard and explores ways in which the biblical texts mediate/d faith, ancient and contemporary. This is the first book to approach Biblical Spirituality in a systematic way, searching widely for impulses that feed into the discipline, and reviewing recent developments. It reflects theoretically and indicates practically aspects of the interaction of faith and Scripture, with both these dimensions approached critically. The volume incorporates insights from various international scholarly traditions: North American, British, European, and South African.
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Africa
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Author/Editor
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Christo Lombaard
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5/18/2012 3:20:08 PM
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