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Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political book cover

1st Edition

Scripturalizing the Human The Written as the Political

Edited By Vincent L. Wimbush Copyright 2015
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptualizes and models "scriptural studies" as a critical, comparative set of practices with broad ramifications for scholars of religion and biblical studies. This critical historical and ethnographic project is focused on scriptures/scripturalization/scripturalizing as shorthand for the (psycho-cultural and... Read more

Introduction: Scriptural-izing: Analytical Wedge for a Critical History of the Human  Vincent L. Wimbush  1. Literally Creative: Intertextual Gaps and Artistic Agency  James S. Bielo  2. The Bible in North American Folklore  Brian Malley  3. Fragmenting the Book of Mormon Imaginary  Daymon Mickel Smith  4. Simultaneity in Global History  José Rabasa  5. Cast out of the Garden: Edenic Scripturalization, Flowers, and Fallen Africa  Grey Gundaker  6. Authorities of Scriptural Technologies in America  Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo  7. From Sanskritization to Vernacularization: Subaltern Inscriptions of Bodies and Landscapes  Barbara A. Holdrege  8. Inkface: The Slave Stigma in England’s Early Imperial Imagination  Miles P. Grier  9. Copts, Scripturalization, and Identity in the Diaspora  Saad Michael Saad and Donald A. Westbrook

Biography

Vincent L. Wimbush is the director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures and is past president of the Society of Biblical Literature.

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