IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1744: Making Sense of the World through Biblical Interpretation
Thursday 6 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | German Historical Institute London |
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Organiser: | Cornelia Linde, German Historical Institute, London |
Moderator/Chair: | Frans van Liere, Department of History, Calvin College, Michigan |
Paper 1744-a | Ordering Society (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Social History |
Paper 1744-b | Ordering the Community, Tracing Its Borders (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Social History |
Paper 1744-c | Ordering the (End of the) World (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session explores different ways in which biblical exegesis served to create, replicate, and prescribe order in medieval life. The first paper explores the use of the Book of Lamentations to explain and uphold social order in the medieval university classroom. The second paper discusses whether the passages in the Pauline Epistles relating to the definition of social order and especially to the dynamics of identity and otherness in a political perspective still held value for medieval exegetes and, if so, how they integrated them in their social views. The third paper, finally, looks at the Book of Revelation, examining the limits of a biblical mind-set. It suggests an intentional liminality and a conscious choice of distancing oneself from the core and key undertones of the biblical narrative. |