The Liberation of Method
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The field of biblical studies has championed the historical-critical method as the only way to guarantee objective interpretation. But in recent decades, scholars have pursued hermeneutical approaches that provide interpretations useful for marginalized communities who see the Bible as a resource in their struggles against oppression. Such liberative strategies remain on the margins. The Liberation of Method argues that this marginality must end, and that liberative methods should become central to biblical studies.
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About David Janzen
David Janzen is associate professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Durham University in England. He has published numerous academic monographs on the Hebrew Bible using postcolonial theory, trauma theory, and socioanthropological methods. His works include The Violent Gift: Trauma's Subversion of the Deuteronomistic History's Narrative (2013) and Trauma and the Failure of History: Kings, Lamentations, and the Destruction of Jerusalem (2019). He has lived and taught in Guatemala, the United States, and England.
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