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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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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 4:1–112
Potential and Actual Cognitive-Emotional Engagement with Characters: A Response to Michael Whitenton and Bonnie Howe & Eve Sweetser2
‘Spiritual Blindness’ in the Bartimaeus Pericope (Mark 10:46–52): Toward Decentering Ableist Readings2
Biblical Interpretation Reading List2
Reading Elisha’s She-Bears: Biblical Interpretation, Extinction Studies, and the Wildness of God2
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
Front matter1
Michal the Giver and Michal the Taker: The Systematic Misogyny of the Davidic Court1
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
Toward Feeling Fragments: Melancholic Migrants and Other Affect Aliens in the Philippian and Corinthian Assemblies0
Goliath’s Humanimal Body: Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Animal Imagery in 1 Samuel 170
Setting the Story of the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26–40) to the Soundtrack of Song of Songs: An Intertextual and Intersectional Performance0
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
A World without Mark: an Experiment in Erasure History0
Now You’re in the Sunken Place: Constructed Monsters in Daniel 7 and Get Out0
Ancient Characters and Contemporary Readers: A Response to Elizabeth E. Shively & Jan Rüggemeier and Cornelis Bennema0
Habitus and Hope: The Function of Early Christian Ritual Practice0
In Memoriam – J. Cheryl Exum1946–20240
Towards a Blending-Based Approach to Early Christian Characters: Nicodemus as a Test Case0
Hidden in Plain Sight: Saul’s Male Trauma Narrative in 1 Samuel0
The Jews as “Children of the Devil” (John 8:44) in Nazi Children’s Literature0
Coercive Names: Interpreting Mark 5:1–13 with Althusser’s “Interpellation”0
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Elijah’s Blackbirds0
Texts of Terror: The Bible and Bathroom Bill in Texas0
Christ’s Cosmetic Hydrotherapy: Blemishes, Wrinkles, and Transformational Waters in Ephesians 5:26–270
Migration and Identity: A Rereading of the Child in Matthew 2:13-230
The נזם and Navigating Power Structures0
Paul, Cochlear Implantation, and Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the Scope of Disability Hermeneutics0
Queer Fish: Following the Great Transgender Fish in the Book of Jonah0
God’s Migrant Caravan: Migration Rhetoric as Missionary Strategy in Acts 7:1-600
Epistolary Affects: An Introduction0
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Bethel, Dark Woods, and Taboo: 1 Kings 13 as a Cautionary Tale0
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Forgetting to Remember: Theorizing the Role of the Forgotten In the Production of Biblical Text and Tradition0
Forgetting the Covenant of Her God0
Re-Romanization in the Heavenly City: World Wars, Global Cities, and Proto-Capitalism in the Book of Revelation0
Udders, Queer Nests, and Animal Family Trees: Kinship as Keyword in Animal Studies in the Bible0
Leviticus 25’s History of Inspiring Freedom as a Moral Challenge to Literary-Historical Interpretation0
Diagnosing Judah’s Distress and Restoration in the Isaiah Apocalypse: Frustrated Childbirth in Isaiah 26 and Mesopotamian Medical Discourse0
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Decolonizing Diets: Idol Food, Jewish Diaspora, and the Crisis of John’s Apocalypse0
Who is the Real “Model Minority”? An Asian American Reading of Ruth and Ebed-Melech in the Hebrew Bible0
Early Church as Utopian Cult: The Case of Hebrews0
Jesus’s ‘Sorrow’ (Matt. 26.37–8)? Exploring the Connotations of a Tabooed Emotion0
From Wild Beast to Huntress: Animal Imagery, Beauty, and Seduction in the Song of Songs and Proverbs0
Emotion, Memory, Meaning, Directions: A Response to Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen and Thomas J. Kraus0
Biblical Interpretation Reading List0
Kissing in the Hebrew Bible: The Body Makes the Bond0
The Constitutive Problem of the Septuagint0
The Super Foul Apostles: Sexual Impropriety, Disgust, and Stinky Affective Histories in 2 Cor. 11:2–40
Biblical Interpretation0
Hyper-Intertextuality: The Temple Cleansing-Rebuilding Tradition as a Compositional Framework in John’s Gospel0
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My: Imprisoned Animals and Humans in the Acts of Paul0
Jerusalem/Zion: a Counter-Imperial Trope in Third Isaiah0
Response: The Blur of Letters, the Residue of Reception0
Cognitive Linguistic Models for Analyzing Characterization in a Parable: Luke 10:25–37 The Compassionate Samaritan0
‘A Considerable Disturbance in the Holy Place’: Ritual Mourning as Efficacious Spatial Subversion in 3 Maccabees0
Introduction: Towards a Cognitive Theory of New Testament Characters: Methodology, Problems, and Desiderata0
How Readers Construct New Testament Characters: The Calling of Peter in the Gospels in Cognitive-Narratological Perspective0
Citations, Allusions, and Marking Them in the Hebrew Bible: A Theoretical Introduction with Some Examples0
Ambiguous Prayers in 1 Timothy 2:1–2: A Postcolonial Reading0
‘It is Not Good for the Human to be Alone…’ (Gen. 2:18): yhwh Elohim Among the Weeping Gods of the Ancient Near East0
Priestly Politics0
What does Job Want? Desire, Fear, Anxiety, and God in and Beyond Job 230
The Bible and the Domestication of the World0
Ezekiel’s גר: Reassigning the Liminal Other within a Trauma-Forged Identity0
Biblical Interpretation Reading List0
I Am Onan: Rereading the So-Called Transgression of Wasting Seed0
Absent Animals: The Anthropocentric Focus of the Book of Ruth0
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
The Matter of Violence0
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A Mother Gets Custody: The Legal Background to Genesis 21:14-210
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Seeing the Biblical World of Sodom-Mamre Through Surveillance0
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Combat Furlough and the Characterization of Uriah the Hittite0
The Philosophy of History and New Testament History: A Survey of the Former with Some Implications for the Latter0
Silencing Leah: The Construction of Idealised Femininity in The Book of Jubilees0
Silencing the Land: Joshua as a Military Ritualist0
Hearing their Cries: A Talanoa Response0
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Dramatis Personae in the Acts of Peter: Character Identification and the Conveyance of Ethical Values0
Introduction: Humanimal—The Bible and “Animal” Others0
Corinthian Ignorance: Knowledge-Language and the Cultivation of Anxious Affects in 1 Corinthians0
Reading List0
Reading 2 Sam. 18:1–19:9 through the Korean Context “United yet Divided”0
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