Advancing Biblical Studies: I. Decentring Whiteness
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The singular aim of this two-volume series is to advance biblical studies. Both volumes arise from a project initiated by the editor, Wongi Park, who asked invited contributors how to cultivate and sustain mutual dialogue, collaboration, and engagement across racial/ethnic, generational, and geographical boundaries?
The singular aim of this two-volume series is to advance biblical studies. Both volumes arise from a project initiated by the editor, Wongi Park, who asked invited contributors how to cultivate and sustain mutual dialogue, collaboration, and engagement across racial/ethnic, generational, and geographical boundaries?
The virtual convenings, held during the pandemic emergencies of 2020, led to a public-facing virtual symposium in 2022 where three critical tasks were undertaken:
– Decentre the monoracial history and methods of the field;
– Model a less traditional and hierarchical approach to biblical studies through dialogue and collaboration;
– Foreground a multiplicity of voices, perspectives, and starting points to diversify biblical studies.
Volume 1 pursues these aims of diagnosing the monoracial Eurocentrism of biblical studies by:
– Examining the problem of whiteness in the Eurocentric origins of the field;
– Reframing traditional methods, tools, and institutions of biblical studies;
– Tracing how whiteness is reproduced in texts, representations, and colonial legacies in biblical reception history.
A distinctive feature of this project is the radical act of gathering a multiracial coalition of Africana, Asian, Euro American, European, Indigenous, Islander, and Latinx scholars that models an alternative approach to biblical studies.
Volume 1 includes contributions in the following order: Wongi Park; Shawn Kelley; Susannah Heschel; M. Adrayael Tong; Luis Menéndez-Antuña; Hulisani Ramantswana; Joel Baden; Lisa J. Cleath; Halvor Moxnes; Ekaputra Tupamahu; Gerrie F. Snyman; Ludwig Beethoven J. Noya; Justin Michael Reed; Kenneth Ngwa; Greg Carey; Stephen D. Moore; Amy Lindeman Allen; Hannah M. Strømmen; Francisco Lozada Jr.
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| Table of Contents | Contents 1. Introduction 2. Decentring Whiteness: Monoracial Identities, Methods, and Sources A. Decentring Whiteness in Biblical Studies 3. How Whiteness Became Centred in Biblical Scholarship B. Reproductions of Whiteness in Biblical Reception History 12. The ‘Implicated Subject’ as a Decolonial Heuristic Key to Interpret the Four Main Characters in the Jacob-Esau Cycle |
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