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Fortress Press eBooks · 2025-12-19

Le pape discret devenu légende : qui était vraiment saint Sylvestre, fêté le 31 décembre ?

2025-12-31

New Year’s Eve celebrates St. Silvester – the 4th-century pope whose legend shaped ideas of church and state

2024-12-26

How the gladiators inspired evangelicals’ sense of persecution

2024-11-26

Biblical Capital

Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-10-06

Examines how the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, have generated social capital through their founding and funding of the Museum of the Bible and also how they have expended this capital through book publications, political speeches, and business opportunities. Argues that the Museum of the Bible functions to authorize the Green family as Bible interpreters and demonstrates through close readings of available material that the bible they commend is entangled with capitalism, authoritarianism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.

Does Scripture Speak for Itself?

2022 · 1 citations

• Political Science
• Aesthetics
• Literature

Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors' subject is the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC: arguably the latest example of a long line of white evangelical institutions aiming to amplify and promote a religious, political, and moral agenda of their own. In their careful and compelling investigation, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon disclose the ways in which the Museum's exhibits reinforce a particularized and partial interpretation of the Bible's meaning. Bringing to light the Museum's implicit messaging about scriptural provenance and audience, the authors reveal how the MOTB produces a version of the Bible that in essence authorizes a certain sort of white evangelical privilege; promotes a view of history aligned with that same evangelical aspiration; and above all protects a cohort of white evangelicals from critique. They show too how the Museum collapses vital conceptual distinctions between its own conservative vision of the Bible and 'The Bible' as a cultural icon. This revelatory volume above all confirms that scripture – for all the claims made for it that it speaks only divine truth – can in the end never be separated from human politics.

Acknowledgments

2022-10-06

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Reliable Bible

Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-10-06

Analyzes how the Museum of the Bible mobilizes ancient artifacts in its presentation of the history of the Bible as a material object. The museum’s exhibits employ protective strategies that work to preserve its bible as a divine word from God that is easily accessible, providing a usable past for white evangelical aspirations of their own authority and supremacy. The museum’s bible is thereby made doubly reliable, in its textual form and in the integrity of its content.

Notes

2022-10-06

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Introduction

Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-10-06

Introduces readers to the Museum of the Bible and its principal founders and funders, the Green family, owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores. Introduces the distinction between the Bible as cultural icon and material bibles. Argues that the Museum of the Bible constructs and markets a bible that is particularly productive for white evangelical Protestantism in the United States.