Vanderbilt University Department of  Religious Studies, College of Arts and Science

READINGS
M-Sept. 11
Miller, “Reading the Bible Historically,” 17--32
Viviano, “Source Criticism,” 35--57 in To Each Its Own Meaning
Van A. Harvey, The Historian and the Believer : The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief

M-Sept. 18
Daniel MARGUERAT, The First Christian Historian, chapter 1, “How Luke Wrote History” (duplicated material)

M-Sept. 25
Sweeney, “Form Criticism,” 58 – 89
Di Vito, “Tradition Historical Criticism,” 90 – 104, in To Each its Own Meaning
Vernon K. Robbins, Exploring the Texture of Texts : A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation

M-Oct. 2
Streete, “Redaction Criticism,”105-121 in To Each its Own Meaning.
Mieke Bal, Murder and difference : gender, genre, and scholarship on Sisera's death

M-Oct. 9
Martin, “Social Scientific Criticism,” 125 – 141 in To Each its Own Meaning
Brian K. Blount, Cultural Interpretation : Reorienting New Testament Criticism

M-Oct. 16
Patte, “Structural Criticism,” 183ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Patte, The Religious Dimensions of Biblical Texts : Greimas's Structural  Semiotics and Biblical Exegesis

M-Oct. 23
Beardsley, “Poststructuralist Criticism,” 253ff in To Each its Own Meaning
George Aichele, et al editors The Postmodern Bible : The Bible and Culture Collective

M-Oct. 30
Callaway, “Canonical criticism,” 142 – 155  in to Each its Own Meaning
Elisabeth Schussler-Fiorenza (Editor),  Searching the Scriptures : A Feminist Introduction (suggested:  Emily Cheney, She Can Read : Feminist Reading Strategies for Biblical Narrative)

M-Nov. 6
Gunn, “Narrative Criticism,” 201ff in To Each its Own Meaning
R. S. Sugirtharajah (Editor), The Postcolonial Bible and Gerald O. West, The Academy of the Poor : Towards a Dialogical Reading of the Bible

M-Nov. 13
McKnight,“Reader Response Criticism,”230ff  in To Each its Own Meaning
Cristina Grenholm and Daniel Patte (Editors) Reading Israel in Romans : Legitimacy and Plausibility of Divergent   Interpretations

M-Nov. 27
Tull, “Rhetorical Criticism and Intertextuality,” 156ff.     in To Each its Own Meaning
Daniel Patte, Ethics of Biblical Interpretation : A Reevaluation

M-Dec. 4
Nolan Fewell, “Reading the Bible Ideologically: Feminist Criticism,” 268ff in To Each its Own Meaning   
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Rhetoric and Ethic : the Politics of Biblical Studies.

M-Dec. 11
Segovia, “Reading the Bible Ideologically: Socioeconomic Criticism,” 283ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Emmanuel Levinas, Richard A. Cohen New Talmudic Readings and Roger Burggraeve, “The Bible Gives to  Thought : Lévinas on the Possibility and   Proper Nature of Biblical Thinking.”