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    Bible: Biblical Studies and Classics

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    What is needed in biblical studies is something analogous to the classicism of French scholars like Vernant, Detienne, Vidal-Naquet, and their followers.  They were carefully attentive to the literary riches of classical texts, but were at the same time anthropologists and cultural historians.

    I see a few moves in this direction in biblical studies, but not nearly enough.  Girard does something like this, but is too eccentric; his theory masters every text he looks at.  Perhaps biblical studies just doesn’t attract minds like those of Vernant and Detienne.

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 2:16 pm