Tipple-Vosburgh
October 18-20, 2011
“The Global Bible: Why People and Place Matter”
When it comes to engaging the Bible, people and place have always mattered. Different cultural contexts, different social circumstances, different historical situations have invited, and sometimes even demanded, that people interpret biblical texts and traditions in different ways. From the beginnings of canon formation, readers have sought, and at times fought, to find what they needed in sacred scripture. The Bible, for its part, has responded with amazing flexibility and exorbitance, lending its words and images to new interpretations to address new social, ethical, and theological urgencies. In this way, both the Bible and its communities of readers have survived and thrived, both perhaps knowing that understanding depends upon continuous reappropriation.
What does it mean to read a global Bible? How can we live in critical intimacy with such an organic, excessive, sprawling presence? What new exegetical vistas await us?
Join us for our 2011 Tipple-Vosburgh event to explore how, when it comes to engaging the Bible, people and place matter!
