The Fantasy of ‘the Bible’ in the Museum of the Bible and Academic Biblical Studies

The Bible” does not exist as material reality, and yet as a cultural icon “the Bible” animates institutions and enterprises devoted to it. This article assesses the short history of scholarship on one such institution, the controversial Museum of the Bible (MOTB) in Washington, D.C., in order to hig...

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Main Author: Jill Hicks-Keeton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Sheffield 2022-07-01
Series:Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
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Online Access:https://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:46904/CONTENT/hicks-keeton-the-fantasy-of-the-bible-v3-17-06-2022.pdf/