Resources compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS.
Read MoreReview by Gilles Gravelle
The Return of Oral Hermeneutics (ROH) is bold, somewhat controversial, certainly single-minded, and appropriately so. Significant research over the last 40 years provides us with enough understanding about orality and the oral origins of the Bible to begin to arrive at some well-founded conclusions. Add to this, current postmodern reflection on the Enlightenment era and its influence on biblical studies. However, it’s not all negative reflection.
Read MoreThe “People of the Book” are the people of the Story. There is an ancient and continuous biblical and Jewish storytelling tradition, with continuity to the present time in the Aggadic/Haggadic and Midrashic tradition in Judaism. Authors Tom Steffen and Bill Bjoraker re-dig some of these wells of Hebrew hermeneutics for effective use today.
Read Moreby Adder Abel Gwoda, Ph. D.
From a cultural point of view, a universal uniformity is emerging which absorbs or dissolves any differences. Under the booster of neoliberal economics, globalization attempts to homogenize different identities following the Western model, resulting in tremendous reactions from endangered cultures. These reactions of identities are of two kinds: the zealot, which is belligerent and can turn into terrorism and the Herodian, which is essentially pacifist and adaptive. A phenomenological analysis of authentic African cultural experience presents an ethnicist acculturation attempt in a bid to diminish the mega-culture of Globalization. This identity reaction which is rather adaptive, known as ethnicist-nationalism, will appear as a valuable contribution to the global justice project in so far as it provides a cosmopolitan flexible citizenship, built out of the postures of sentimental-nationalism and instrumental-globalization.
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