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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Biblical Interpretation Reading List12
‘Spiritual Blindness’ in the Bartimaeus Pericope (Mark 10:46–52): Toward Decentering Ableist Readings3
The Apostle of Failure: Queer Refusal, the Corinthian Letters, and Paul’s Unflattering Characterization in the Acts of Thecla3
Announcing the Biblical Interpretation Reading List2
Reading Elisha’s She-Bears: Biblical Interpretation, Extinction Studies, and the Wildness of God2
Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon as a Traumascape: Reading Jeremiah 7:1–8:3 Through the Metaphor of the Phantasmagoria2
The Perils of Jephthah’s Daughter: Biblical Films as Social Problem-Solving Operations2
What’s in a Nickname? Barnabas and the Dynamics of Displacement, Belonging, and Identity2
“Is it Right for You to be Angry?” Gaslighting and Pathologizing the Resisting Voice in Jonah 4:1–112
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Re-forming Romans with First Reformed1
Beyond Spiritual Blindness: Agency, Honour, and Discipleship in Mark’s Bartimaeus Pericope (Mark 10:46–52)1
Introduction: Humanimal—The Bible and “Animal” Others1
Dwelling in Fragility: Poetic Historiography and Historical Trauma in Chronicles with Resonance on the Trauma Fiction of Han Kang1
On Animals, Autonomy, and Apocalypticism in Daniel1
Sustainability Hermeneutics1
Monsters Speaking Trauma: Behemoth and Leviathan as the “Otherness Within” the Post-Exilic Self1
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
Trauma, Memory, and Decolonizing Spirit in John’s Gospel and Beyond: Korean Comfort Women Talk Back to the Johannine Jesus1
The Wind Blows Where It Wishes1
Indicting Yahweh: The Failure of Masculinity in Lamentations1
Children’s Bibles as Sites of Collective Memory in Denmark: Between Ecclesial Christianity and Cultural Christianity1
Queer Fish: Following the Great Transgender Fish in the Book of Jonah0
Citations, Allusions, and Marking Them in the Hebrew Bible: A Theoretical Introduction with Some Examples0
Pauline Epistles as Affective Technologies: Liberating Literary Form and the Letter to Philemon0
Early Church as Utopian Cult: The Case of Hebrews0
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The Bible and the Domestication of the World0
Corinthian Ignorance: Knowledge-Language and the Cultivation of Anxious Affects in 1 Corinthians0
Always too Much, and Never Enough? Nordic Laws and the Bible0
What does Job Want? Desire, Fear, Anxiety, and God in and Beyond Job 230
Constructed Identities and Dueling Ideologies: Reading Ancient Israelite Foreign Oracles as Ideological Critique0
Habitus and Hope: The Function of Early Christian Ritual Practice0
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Scripture and Secularism in Modern Scandinavia and Beyond0
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Absent Animals: The Anthropocentric Focus of the Book of Ruth0
Situating Biblical anger: Embodied Realism and the Cognitive Constraints Shaping Emotion Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible0
The Matter of Violence0
Window as Reception and Reception as Window: David Instructing Solomon in Burne-Jones’ Stained Glass and Method in the Visual Interpretation of the Bible0
An Ethnolinguistic Repertoire for the Kingdom: The Sociolinguistic Function of Aramaic in Galatians 4:60
Jerusalem/Zion: a Counter-Imperial Trope in Third Isaiah0
Jesus’s ‘Sorrow’ (Matt. 26.37–8)? Exploring the Connotations of a Tabooed Emotion0
“Who is Wise to Understand this?”: Interpreting Hosea 14:10 through the Lens of the Hermeneutic of Trauma0
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Saul’s Male Trauma Narrative in 1 Samuel0
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Growing Up in a Foreign Land. A Narrative Analysis from a Childist Perspective of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah in Daniel 1–20
Sociotechnical Assemblages and Biblical Affects: A Response to Scripture and Secularism in Modern Scandinavia and Beyond0
Toward Feeling Fragments: Melancholic Migrants and Other Affect Aliens in the Philippian and Corinthian Assemblies0
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My: Imprisoned Animals and Humans in the Acts of Paul0
Leviticus 25’s History of Inspiring Freedom as a Moral Challenge to Literary-Historical Interpretation0
Migration and Identity: A Rereading of the Child in Matthew 2:13-230
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Priestly Politics0
Setting the Story of the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26–40) to the Soundtrack of Song of Songs: An Intertextual and Intersectional Performance0
God’s Migrant Caravan: Migration Rhetoric as Missionary Strategy in Acts 7:1-600
The Monster, Delilah and Liberation in The Shape of Water0
Impious Frauds: Found Footage Horror and the Book of Deuteronomy0
Reading Jeremiah 29:4–7 with Multiplaced Bodies0
Hebrews’ Heterotopias and the Shaping of the Colonial Christian Mind0
‘It is Not Good for the Human to be Alone…’ (Gen. 2:18): yhwh Elohim Among the Weeping Gods of the Ancient Near East0
Decolonizing Diets: Idol Food, Jewish Diaspora, and the Crisis of John’s Apocalypse0
Twenty More Years of Bible and Film: An Introduction0
Goliath’s Humanimal Body: Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Animal Imagery in 1 Samuel 170
Epistolary Affects: An Introduction0
Get Out of Eden!0
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Trust and Type in Jesus Films0
Digging for Roots: Perceptions of Secularity and Biblical Assemblages in the 1957–58 Public Debate on Women’s Ordination in Sweden0
Kissing in the Hebrew Bible: The Body Makes the Bond0
Biblical Interpretation Reading List0
The Jews as “Children of the Devil” (John 8:44) in Nazi Children’s Literature0
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Elijah’s Blackbirds0
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Seeing the Biblical World of Sodom-Mamre Through Surveillance0
Udders, Queer Nests, and Animal Family Trees: Kinship as Keyword in Animal Studies in the Bible0
Before Brutus and Judas: Kissing, Betrayal, and Ekphrasis in the Hebrew Bible0
Hearing their Cries: A Talanoa Response0
Hyper-Intertextuality: The Temple Cleansing-Rebuilding Tradition as a Compositional Framework in John’s Gospel0
Reading 2 Sam. 18:1–19:9 through the Korean Context “United yet Divided”0
Chicken Jesus0
Ambiguous Prayers in 1 Timothy 2:1–2: A Postcolonial Reading0
Re-Romanization in the Heavenly City: World Wars, Global Cities, and Proto-Capitalism in the Book of Revelation0
Looking for Homophobia, a Metacritique: Contemporary Interpreters’ Views on Sodom in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs0
Scriptures in Swedish Parliamentary Debates: A Banal Bible and a Hot Qur’an0
Ezekiel’s גר: Reassigning the Liminal Other within a Trauma-Forged Identity0
Silencing Leah: The Construction of Idealised Femininity in The Book of Jubilees0
Forgetting to Remember: Theorizing the Role of the Forgotten In the Production of Biblical Text and Tradition0
‘A Considerable Disturbance in the Holy Place’: Ritual Mourning as Efficacious Spatial Subversion in 3 Maccabees0
Combat Furlough and the Characterization of Uriah the Hittite0
Ghosts of the Remnant0
Bethel, Dark Woods, and Taboo: 1 Kings 13 as a Cautionary Tale0
Responding to Secularization: The Bible as Public Scripture in Late Postwar Sweden0
Us and the Tethered of Genesis0
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
In Memoriam – J. Cheryl Exum1946–20240
Response: The Blur of Letters, the Residue of Reception0
Who is the Real “Model Minority”? An Asian American Reading of Ruth and Ebed-Melech in the Hebrew Bible0
‘This is Truly the Savior of the World’: An Intersectional Empire-Critical Approach to John 4:1–420
Coercive Names: Interpreting Mark 5:1–13 with Althusser’s “Interpellation”0
A Mother Gets Custody: The Legal Background to Genesis 21:14-210
Rizpah: Grieving the Ungrievable (2 Sam. 21:1–14)0
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Christ’s Cosmetic Hydrotherapy: Blemishes, Wrinkles, and Transformational Waters in Ephesians 5:26–270
Biblical Interpretation Reading List0
The Super Foul Apostles: Sexual Impropriety, Disgust, and Stinky Affective Histories in 2 Cor. 11:2–40
Forgetting the Covenant of Her God0
“Clawing at the Eyes of God”: Slayer’s God Hates us all as Palimpsest of the Book of Job0
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