The Bible - Let‘s Read It Differently!

This 1.5 minute introduction gives the background to the podcast and musical credits to Robin Smith (guitar), Peter Ronick (drums on JB Shuffle) along with myself (Hammond organ), also to The Meters (Cissy Strut) and Jeremy Baum (JB Shuffle) 

Interview with Steed Davidson of McCormick Theological Seminary and author of Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah (T&T Clark, 2011) and a book in preparation, Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: A Guide to the Perplexed. An expert on the topic, Davidson discusses different ways that postcolonial studies can be used in relation to the Bible and some important resources for further exploration of Postcolonial biblical criticism. 

Professor Cheryl Anderson of Garrett-Evangelical Seminary and author of Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need for Inclusive Biblical Interpretation (Oxford, 2009) discusses intersectional analysis and analysis of the biblical text and its effects over time.  The interview connects with her article "Reflections in an interethnic/racial era on interethnic/racial marriage in Ezra," in Bailey, Lieu They Were All Together in One Place?, 47-64. 

In this interview, Ken Stone of Chicago Theological Seminary and author of Practicing Safer Texts (2005) describes how he came to destabilize the heteronormative Biblical creation stories through using the theories of Monique Wittig and Judith Butler.  This episode connects with his “The Garden of Eden and the Heterosexual Contract,” in Bodily Citations, ed. Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 48-70. 

Professor Cheryl Anderson of Garrett-Evangelical Seminary and author of Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need for Inclusive Biblical Interpretation (Oxford, 2009) discusses how she rereads the Song of Songs in light of the HIV/AIDS crisis impacting communities of color.  The interview connects with her "Womanist Reading of the Song of Songs in the Age of AIDS," in Brenner-Idan and Yee (eds.), The Five Scrolls (Bloomsbury, 2018), 89-102. 

In this episode Carol Newsom, Professor of Old Testament at Emory University and former President of the Society of Biblical Literature discusses feminist interpretation and biblical wisdom, with a focus on Proverbs 8.  The episode builds on Newsom's classic 1989 article "Women and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1–9,”  in Day (ed.), Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel. Fortress, 1989. 

In this episode Carol Newsom, Professor of Old Testament at Emory University and former President of the Society of Biblical Literature explains how she came to the idea that the Bible's truth is best perceived as 'dialogical'. Its multiple viewpoints capture diverse sides of issues better than a single system would.  The episode builds on Newsom's 1996 article “Bakhtin, the Bible and Dialogic Truth.” Journal of Religion 76 (1996):290-306.