Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy

Teaching the Bible Coming to terms with the interpretive revolution- Although the field of biblical studies is bursting with new methods and fresh interpretations there has been surprisingly little discussion of what these changes mean for the actual task of teaching the Bible. Happily this volume takes significant first steps in addressing the shifts in classroom pedagogy that the new day in biblical studies urgently demands. Norman K. Gottwald Author of The Hebrew Bible: A Brief Socio-Literary Introduction An absolutely indispensable compendium of resources for charting the changes in the discipline of biblical studies for exposing the operations of power in past and present interpretations and uses of the Bible and for discovering a variety of postmodernist and postcolonial pedagogies in the reading and teaching of the Bible in a radically pluralistic age. Abraham Smith Perkins School of Theology S.M.U. A superb collection of essays on a topic centrally important to theological education and biblical studies. It is an invaluable contribution to the new emancipatory paradigm emerging in biblical studies. Highly accessible a must reading for anyone in the field. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity Harvard University Divinity School Teaching the Bible engages the problem and opportunity of theological education in the twenty-first century head on. In a tightly crafted series of provocative essays the work clearly defines the postmodern postcolonial culturally enriched challenges facing the academy today. For any student or scholar who wants to engage the postmodern challenge as an innovative opportunity rather than a debilitating crisis Teaching the Bible is required reading. Brian K. Blount President Union Theological Seminary-PSCE Fernando F. Segovia is Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School. He is author with Ada María Isasi-Díaz of Hispanic Latino Theology: Challenge and Promise (Fortress Press 1996). Mary Ann Tolbert is George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California. She is author of Sowing the Gospel: Marks World in Literary-Historical Perspective (Fortress Press 1996). Biblical Studies / Hermeneutics Fortress Press FortressPress.com