Biblical Interpretation-A Journal of Contemporary Approaches

Papers
(The median citation count of Biblical Interpretation-A Journal of Contemporary Approaches is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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‘Spiritual Blindness’ in the Bartimaeus Pericope (Mark 10:46–52): Toward Decentering Ableist Readings4
The Apostle of Failure: Queer Refusal, the Corinthian Letters, and Paul’s Unflattering Characterization in the Acts of Thecla4
“Is it Right for You to be Angry?” Gaslighting and Pathologizing the Resisting Voice in Jonah 4:1–113
Potential and Actual Cognitive-Emotional Engagement with Characters: A Response to Michael Whitenton and Bonnie Howe & Eve Sweetser2
Reading Elisha’s She-Bears: Biblical Interpretation, Extinction Studies, and the Wildness of God2
Biblical Interpretation Reading List2
Announcing the Biblical Interpretation Reading List1
Are Saul’s Sons Scapegoats?1
How Audience Members Envision New Testament Characters: Mental Character Models, Blending, and the Reception of Luke 1:5–2:521
A Woman, a Snake, and a Bear-Woman: An Intertextual Reading of the Garden of Eden Story (gen 2:4b–3:24) In Relation to a Korean Origin Myth1
Michal the Giver and Michal the Taker: The Systematic Misogyny of the Davidic Court1
Introduction: Humanimal—The Bible and “Animal” Others1
Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon as a Traumascape: Reading Jeremiah 7:1–8:3 Through the Metaphor of the Phantasmagoria1
On Animals, Autonomy, and Apocalypticism in Daniel1
Sustainability Hermeneutics1
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Decolonizing Diets: Idol Food, Jewish Diaspora, and the Crisis of John’s Apocalypse0
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‘A Considerable Disturbance in the Holy Place’: Ritual Mourning as Efficacious Spatial Subversion in 3 Maccabees0
Absent Animals: The Anthropocentric Focus of the Book of Ruth0
Migration and Identity: A Rereading of the Child in Matthew 2:13-230
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My: Imprisoned Animals and Humans in the Acts of Paul0
A Mother Gets Custody: The Legal Background to Genesis 21:14-210
Biblical Interpretation Reading List0
Kissing in the Hebrew Bible: The Body Makes the Bond0
Growing Up in a Foreign Land. A Narrative Analysis from a Childist Perspective of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah in Daniel 1–20
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Biblical Interpretation0
The Constitutive Problem of the Septuagint0
The נזם and Navigating Power Structures0
‘It is Not Good for the Human to be Alone…’ (Gen. 2:18): yhwh Elohim Among the Weeping Gods of the Ancient Near East0
Hearing their Cries: A Talanoa Response0
Hyper-Intertextuality: The Temple Cleansing-Rebuilding Tradition as a Compositional Framework in John’s Gospel0
Ghosts of the Remnant0
Bethel, Dark Woods, and Taboo: 1 Kings 13 as a Cautionary Tale0
Queer Fish: Following the Great Transgender Fish in the Book of Jonah0
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Citations, Allusions, and Marking Them in the Hebrew Bible: A Theoretical Introduction with Some Examples0
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Priestly Politics0
Cognitive Linguistic Models for Analyzing Characterization in a Parable: Luke 10:25–37 The Compassionate Samaritan0
Early Church as Utopian Cult: The Case of Hebrews0
Silencing the Land: Joshua as a Military Ritualist0
Ezekiel’s גר: Reassigning the Liminal Other within a Trauma-Forged Identity0
What does Job Want? Desire, Fear, Anxiety, and God in and Beyond Job 230
I Am Onan: Rereading the So-Called Transgression of Wasting Seed0
Ancient Characters and Contemporary Readers: A Response to Elizabeth E. Shively & Jan Rüggemeier and Cornelis Bennema0
Leviticus 25’s History of Inspiring Freedom as a Moral Challenge to Literary-Historical Interpretation0
In Memoriam – J. Cheryl Exum1946–20240
Seeing the Biblical World of Sodom-Mamre Through Surveillance0
The Jews as “Children of the Devil” (John 8:44) in Nazi Children’s Literature0
“Who is Wise to Understand this?”: Interpreting Hosea 14:10 through the Lens of the Hermeneutic of Trauma0
Reading List0
Hidden in Plain Sight: Saul’s Male Trauma Narrative in 1 Samuel0
The Super Foul Apostles: Sexual Impropriety, Disgust, and Stinky Affective Histories in 2 Cor. 11:2–40
Forgetting the Covenant of Her God0
The Philosophy of History and New Testament History: A Survey of the Former with Some Implications for the Latter0
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Rizpah: Grieving the Ungrievable (2 Sam. 21:1–14)0
Goliath’s Humanimal Body: Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Animal Imagery in 1 Samuel 170
Response: The Blur of Letters, the Residue of Reception0
Silencing Leah: The Construction of Idealised Femininity in The Book of Jubilees0
Towards a Blending-Based Approach to Early Christian Characters: Nicodemus as a Test Case0
Epistolary Affects: An Introduction0
Ambiguous Prayers in 1 Timothy 2:1–2: A Postcolonial Reading0
Coercive Names: Interpreting Mark 5:1–13 with Althusser’s “Interpellation”0
Reading 2 Sam. 18:1–19:9 through the Korean Context “United yet Divided”0
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Setting the Story of the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26–40) to the Soundtrack of Song of Songs: An Intertextual and Intersectional Performance0
Corinthian Ignorance: Knowledge-Language and the Cultivation of Anxious Affects in 1 Corinthians0
From Wild Beast to Huntress: Animal Imagery, Beauty, and Seduction in the Song of Songs and Proverbs0
Toward Feeling Fragments: Melancholic Migrants and Other Affect Aliens in the Philippian and Corinthian Assemblies0
Now You’re in the Sunken Place: Constructed Monsters in Daniel 7 and Get Out0
The Matter of Violence0
Habitus and Hope: The Function of Early Christian Ritual Practice0
Who is the Real “Model Minority”? An Asian American Reading of Ruth and Ebed-Melech in the Hebrew Bible0
Diagnosing Judah’s Distress and Restoration in the Isaiah Apocalypse: Frustrated Childbirth in Isaiah 26 and Mesopotamian Medical Discourse0
Jesus’s ‘Sorrow’ (Matt. 26.37–8)? Exploring the Connotations of a Tabooed Emotion0
A World without Mark: an Experiment in Erasure History0
Biblical Interpretation Reading List0
Texts of Terror: The Bible and Bathroom Bill in Texas0
Dramatis Personae in the Acts of Peter: Character Identification and the Conveyance of Ethical Values0
Christ’s Cosmetic Hydrotherapy: Blemishes, Wrinkles, and Transformational Waters in Ephesians 5:26–270
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Elijah’s Blackbirds0
Combat Furlough and the Characterization of Uriah the Hittite0
An Ethnolinguistic Repertoire for the Kingdom: The Sociolinguistic Function of Aramaic in Galatians 4:60
Paul, Cochlear Implantation, and Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the Scope of Disability Hermeneutics0
Emotion, Memory, Meaning, Directions: A Response to Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen and Thomas J. Kraus0
Constructed Identities and Dueling Ideologies: Reading Ancient Israelite Foreign Oracles as Ideological Critique0
Pauline Epistles as Affective Technologies: Liberating Literary Form and the Letter to Philemon0
Jerusalem/Zion: a Counter-Imperial Trope in Third Isaiah0
How Readers Construct New Testament Characters: The Calling of Peter in the Gospels in Cognitive-Narratological Perspective0
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God’s Migrant Caravan: Migration Rhetoric as Missionary Strategy in Acts 7:1-600
Re-Romanization in the Heavenly City: World Wars, Global Cities, and Proto-Capitalism in the Book of Revelation0
Introduction: Towards a Cognitive Theory of New Testament Characters: Methodology, Problems, and Desiderata0
The Bible and the Domestication of the World0
Forgetting to Remember: Theorizing the Role of the Forgotten In the Production of Biblical Text and Tradition0
The Old and the Young in Luke-Acts: The Lukan Literary Efforts for the Post-War Trauma, Generational Unity, and the Empowerment of the Younger Generation0
Udders, Queer Nests, and Animal Family Trees: Kinship as Keyword in Animal Studies in the Bible0
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