[PAST EVENT] "The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Symposium)

April 21, 2022
6pm - 8pm
Location
Tucker Hall, 127A
350 James Blair Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Internal Image of the Museum of the Bible, Washington, D.C. (NBC NEWS)
Internal Image of the Museum of the Bible, Washington, D.C. (NBC NEWS)

Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon show how the billion-dollar Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C, recruits ancient Jewish and Christian materials to construct "the Bible" as a divine word from God to humans, who in turn must develop ever-improving material technologies to protect it from the vagaries of history and the inquiries of critical scholars.

Jill Hicks-Keeton is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

Cavan Concannon is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California.

They are the co-authors of Does Scripture Speak for Itself? The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation, in press at Cambridge University Press.


Contact

Andrew Tobolowsky, [[abtobolowsky]]