Overview
- Offers a critical counter-reading of the early history of the British Museum
- Focuses on the collaborative relationships and affective modes of affiliation between scientific-based biblical critics and the British Museum
- Offers an analysis of the ethical and political implications of a national museum of the Bible
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Since the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs. Yet, absent in biblical scholarship is a thorough and critical examination of the instrumentality of the discipline’s master archives for elite power structures. Addressing this gap in biblical scholarship lies central to this book. Interrogated here is a premier repository or master archive of the discipline: the British Museum. Using an assemblage of critical theories from archival discourse to postcolonial studies, space theory to governmentality studies, the focal point of this book is at the intersections of the Museum’s rise to scientific prominence, the British Empire, and the conferring of scientific authority to modern biblical critics in the nineteenth century. Gregory L. Cuéllar initiates a season of historicization of the master archives of biblical studies and archival criticism.
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“Cuéllar’s work is incisive, persuasive, and important. … Cuéllar’s task in Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century is hermeneutically-minded and immanently relevant to the shifting tides of biblical criticism in the twenty-first century.” (Erin J. Beall, Horizons in Biblical Theology, Vol. 44 (1), 2022)
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About the author
Gregory L. Cuéllar is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA. His research reveals a transdisciplinary scope, focusing primarily on the intersections of elite power and master archives as well as religion and migration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century
Book Subtitle: Archival Criticism
Authors: Gregory L. Cuéllar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24028-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24027-1Published: 05 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24030-1Published: 05 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24028-8Published: 23 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 188
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biblical Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism, British Culture