Advancing Biblical Studies
I. Decentring Whiteness
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(April 2026)
ISBN: 9781918358018
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(April 2026)
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Contributors ask how to cultivate and sustain mutual dialogue collaboration and engagement across racial/ethnic generational and geographical boundaries.
The singular aim of this two-volume set 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:
Decenter 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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