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[PAST EVENT] "The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Symposium)
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.
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Andrew Tobolowsky, [[abtobolowsky]]