Religious Studies 335 - Afterlives of Biblical Texts

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Macalester College

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Biblical texts serve as creative, complex, and continuing sites of social reformulations rather than synoptic and narrative enclosures of the ancient past. This seminar explores the social legacies of biblical texts. We will approach scripture not as text but as a site of performative palimpsest. This course prioritizes contemporary, creative and complex mis-readings over objectivist exegeses of text. We will explore a range of topics (Jerry Falwell, African Americans and the Bible, the Bible in popular culture), and a variety of biblical texts (both Hebrew and Christian), in an effort to de-center the object of study. Not offered 2008-2009. (4 credits)

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.macalester.edu

Phone Number:

(651) 696-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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