The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto

by Yvonne Sherwood and Stephen D. Moore

What is a "biblical scholar"? Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood provide a thoroughly defamiliarizing and frequently entertaining re-description of this peculiar academic species and its odd disciplinary habitat. The modern-and -biblical scholar, they argue, is a product of the Enlightenment. Even when a biblical scholar imagines that she is doing something else entirely (something confessional, theoretical, literary, or even postmodern), she is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080069774X
• ISBN13: 9780800697747
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"