Challenging Contextuality

Challenging Contextuality: Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context provides a new and innovative contribution to the study of biblical texts by bringing together current approaches to biblical interpretation. The volume sets the agenda for the future of the field and provides a synthesis of approaches to date. In doing so, it aligns itself with the broadly shared hermeneutical conviction that contextuality is a catalyst forinterpretation. This applies in equal measure to approaches and methods that are often framed as 'traditional' or 'mainstream' (e.g. the methodological canon of the historical critical approach as the offspring of theEuropean Enlightenment) and those that are often dubbed 'contextual' (e.g. forms of feminist or 'indigenous' interpretation). The volume grounds contextual biblical interpretation within the broader landscape of biblical studies, and the chapters are all interested in the contexts in which bibles are read. Rather than a series of examples of contextual biblical interpretation, this book is concerned with what it means to do contextual biblical interpretation, howcontextual biblical interpretation challenges biblical scholarship, and what chances there are for this mode of inquiry. What contexts are engaged and elucidated when it comes to bible-use? What contexts aremade visible and invisible? How can different contexts be theorized and understood? The volume argues that it is not context that matters, rather, contemporary contexts should be a challenge and a chance for biblical scholarship, its present and its future.

Louise Lawrence is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the University of Exeter. Peter-Ben Smit is Professor of Contextual Biblical Interpretation at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and Professor (by special appointment) of Ancient Catholic Church Structures and the History and Doctrine of the Old Catholic Churches at Utrecht University. Hannah M. Strømmen is Senior Lecturer in Bible, Politics, and Culture at Lund University, and currently holdsa Wallenberg Academy Fellowship. Charlene van der Walt is Honorary Associate Professor of Gender and Religion at the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and theGlobal Coordinator for Theological Education at Act Church of Sweden.

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