Two PhD students for the Department of Religious Studies have just been published in the journal Biblical Interpretation, Volume 25, Issues 4-5 (2017).

Biblical Interpretation publishes articles on various aspects of critical biblical scholarship in a complex global context.

Taylor Weaver, whose PhD project is titled ‘St Paul and Money: A Philosophical / Theological Paulinist Critique of Economy’, under the supervision Dr Ward Blanton, contributed the article ‘Paul and Political Critique: Liberalism, Ontology and the Pauline Community’. This considers how St. Paul’s communal activity and writing allows for thinking through contemporary political philosophical problems inherent in the concept of community, a problem that forms partially around notions of individuality and how communitarian or collectivistic sensibilities arrange the individual. To access the article, please see the page here.

Jenny Matheny, whose PhD project is titled ‘Judges 19-21 and Ruth: Canon as a Voice of Answerability’, under the supervision of Professor Yvonne Sherwood, contributed the article ‘Mute and Mutilated: Understanding Judges 19-21 as a Mashal of Dialogue’. With the assistance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s work with dialogism, this study uncovers theological and political nuances in close readings of the Judges 19-21. Access the article here.

The special double issue has been edited by Yvonne Sherwood, who contributed an article entitled ‘Grammars of Sacrifice: Futures, Subjunctives, and What Would Have/Could Have Happened on Mount Moriah?’, which may be accessed here.

To access the full double issue, please see the page here.