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Bringing together nationally and internationally known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the newly opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and wrestles with the thorny interpretive issues and complex histories that are at risk of being obscured when private funds put a major museum on the National Mall.
Bringing together nationally and internationally-known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary positions, including biblical studies, history, archaeology, Judaic studies, and religion and public life. The Museum of the Bible is poised to wield unparalleled influence on the national popular imagination of the Bible’s contents, history, and uses through time. This volume provides critical tools by which a broad public of scholars and students alike can assess the Museum of the Bible’s presentation of its vast collection and wrestle with the thorny interpretive issues and complex histories that are at risk of being obscured when private funds put a major museum near the National Mall.
Foreword Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden
Introduction Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon
I. What’s the Bible Good For?
Chapter 1 “It’s Complicated.” “No It’s Not.” : The Museum of the Bible, Problems and Solutions
Margaret M. Mitchell
Chapter 2 Exploring Race, Religion, and Slavery at the Museum of the Bible
Terrence L. Johnson
II. The Museum of Whose Bible?
Chapter 3 Christian Supersessionism and the Problem of Diversity at the Museum of the Bible
Jill Hicks-Keeton
Chapter 4 Looking at the Bible Sideways: One Jewish Scholar’s Perspective Marc Zvi Brettler
Chapter 5 Smoke and Mirrors: The Hebrew Bible Exhibit at the Museum of the Bible
Mark Leuchter
III. Archaeology, Israel, and the “Reliability” of the Bible
Chapter 6 Theopolitics, Archaeology, and the Ideology of the Museum of the Bible
Cavan Concannon
Chapter 7 The Land of Israel and Bodily Pedagogy at the Museum of the Bible
Sarah F. Porter
IV. Materiality, Text, and the Production of Scripture
Chapter 8 Editing Without Interpreting: The Museum of the Bible and New Testament Textual Criticism Jennifer Wright Knust
Chapter 9 The Green Papyri and the Museum of the Bible Roberta Mazza
Chapter 10 Christian Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Post-2002 Fragments as Modern Protestant Relics Ludvik A. Kjeldsberg
V. Christian Nationalism and the Bible in America
Chapter 11 Letting the Bible Do Its Work on Behalf of Christian America: The Founding Era at the Museum of the Bible John Fea
Chapter 12 Religious Freedom for a Christian America: “Don’t You Agree?” Stephen L. Young
VI. Religion, Politics, and the Museum’s Hidden Partners
Chapter 13 The Creationist Museum of the Bible James R. Linville
Chapter 14 Museum of the Bible’s Politicized Holy Land Trip Mark A. Chancey