International Centre for Biblical Interpretation

Description

The International Centre for Biblical Interpretation in the School of Humanities aims to promote scholarship that both studies the Bible in its various ancient contexts and engages with its subject matter in such a way as to advocate its continuing significance for life in church and society.

Five major dimensions of the International Centre’s activities are:

• Enhancing staff research and writing
• Training postgraduate students in research
• Receiving visiting scholars
• Developing a community of scholarship
• Facilitating and hosting a variety of projects in biblical interpretation

The Centre particularly encourages work in the following overlapping areas of biblical scholarship:

• Historical interpretation of biblical and extra biblical texts, especially aided by social-scientific ideas and perspectives, with a strong philological focus and attention to the range of ancient languages involved.

• Explorations of the relationships among historical, literary and theological approaches to biblical texts and among the frequently isolated disciplines of Old Testament, New Testament, Intertestamental texts and Theology

• Investigations of the possibilities of a renewed biblical theology, including treatments of the relationship between the Testaments, canonical interpretation, intertextuality, overall biblical themes and the engagement of such investigations with systematic and contemporary theology

• Hermeneutical studies, including reflection on the theory, practice and history of interpretation of the Bible, on the relation of various interpretative methods to a Christian worldview, and on the reception and use of the Bible in theology, ethics, faith communities, education, literature, art and other visual media and society

• Christian theological interpretations of the Bible, including analysis of the relation between exegesis and theology and readings of biblical texts from within the horizon of contemporary systematic, constructive and practical theology and current ethical, philosophical, cultural and political issues

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2000

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University of Gloucestershire
Cheltenham