Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I CHRISTIAN ORIGINS AND NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES IN IDEOLOGICALLY AND HISTORICALLY CONTAMINATED CONTEXTS
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading the History Of New Testament and Chrisitian Origins Scholarship
- Chapter 2 The Politics of the Bibliobloggers
- PART II NEO-ORIENTALISM: ORIENTALISM, HIDEOUSLY EMBOLDENED
- PART III “JEWISHNESS,” JESUS AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS SINCE 1967
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Names
Chapter 2 - The Politics of the Bibliobloggers
from PART I - CHRISTIAN ORIGINS AND NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES IN IDEOLOGICALLY AND HISTORICALLY CONTAMINATED CONTEXTS
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I CHRISTIAN ORIGINS AND NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES IN IDEOLOGICALLY AND HISTORICALLY CONTAMINATED CONTEXTS
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading the History Of New Testament and Chrisitian Origins Scholarship
- Chapter 2 The Politics of the Bibliobloggers
- PART II NEO-ORIENTALISM: ORIENTALISM, HIDEOUSLY EMBOLDENED
- PART III “JEWISHNESS,” JESUS AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS SINCE 1967
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Names
Summary
In a classic line from a Hollywood screwball comedy, the girl asks her boyfriend: “Do you want to marry me?” “No!” “Stop dodging the issue! Give me a straight answer!” In a way, the underlying logic is correct: the only acceptable straight answer for the girl is “Yes!” so anything else, including a straight “No!” counts as evasion. This underlying logic, of course, is again that of the forced choice: you're free to decide, on condition that you make the right choice.
Slavoj Žižekforeign policy itself is a meaning-making activity, and one that has helped frame our ideas of nationhood and national interest. Foreign policy statements and government actions become part of a larger discourse through their relation to other kinds of representation, including news and television accounts of current events, but also novels, films, museum exhibits, and advertising… Obviously the practice of foreign policymakers…works from a different set of assumptions and constraints that differs from that of filmmakers or television news producers. But foreign policy is a semiotic activity, not only because it is articulated and transmitted through texts but also because the policies themselves construct meanings.
Melani McAlisterRather than damn the entire enterprise because it is allegedly ‘postmodernist,’ some sort of rational argument might be preferable (This is what I dislike about Blogs and why they remins [sic] me so much of Talk Radio).
Jacques BerlinerblauSince the mid-1990s there has been a noticeable growth of academic New Testament studies and related areas on the internet.
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- Jesus in an Age of TerrorScholarly Projects for a New American Century, pp. 20 - 56Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2008