Mark G Brett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 453130 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mark G Brett |
| PRENOMES | Mark G |
| SOBRENOME | Brett |
| ASSINATURA | BRETT M G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Divinity |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7783-3225 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Usury
This paper examines the complex biblical prohibitions of interest and usury, tracing the changes from ancient Israelite subsistence economies through to modern financial arrangements. The discussion considers the question why New Testament materials played only a minor role in the formulation of Christian distinctions between interest and usury. An historical review highlights the poor laws of Exodus, ‘sibling’ ethics in Deuteronomy, emended prov…
Beyond the Academy
Humans and Other Creatures
The chapter discusses the modern sciences of ethnography and anthropology, and their impact on the history of biblical interpretation. According to Edward B. Tylor, for example, the narratives in Genesis contained indications of “animism,” as he famously framed the concept in the nineteenth century. Eschewing Tylor’s own imperial pretensions, this chapter takes up the more recent notions of animism in anthropological studies and applies them to t…
Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible
A Christian imagination of colonial discovery permeated the early modern world, but legal histories developed in very different ways depending on the imperial jurisdictions. This volume explores the contradictions and ironies that emerged in the interactions between biblical warrants and colonial theories of Indigenous "natural" rights. The early debates in the Americas mutated in the British colonies with a range of different outcomes after the …
“The Canaanites were then in the Land” and Other Shechemite Ironies
The Hexateuchal narrative arc begins with Abram’s encounter with Yhwh in Shechem in Gen 12:6–7 and ends with Joshua’s covenant at the same place in Josh 24:25–26. These “bookends” make mention of a particular tree in Shechem, which also features in Gen 35:1–4. The inherited Priestly tradition claimed that none of the ancestors in Genesis knew the name Yhwh, but the Hexateuchal editors of the Persian period insist that both El and Yhwh were known …
The JBL Forum, an Occasional Exchange
Sovereignty
Through assertions of ‘sovereignty’, modern nation states lay claim to an undivided authority. It is commonly suggested that this kind of political assertion superseded the overlapping authorities of medieval theological imagination. But in settler colonial states, Indigenous sovereignties endure to the present, not washed away by the ‘tide of history’, and in many cases Indigenous peoples embrace Christian identities along with traditional law a…
Creation, God, and the coronavirus
This short reflection argues that, in the face of natural crises that occur in the world, responsible Christian speech requires a much fuller and more thickly textured understanding of creation than is often presented. Reading the Bible leads us to avoid speculating on the origins or purposes of such crises. Rather, it bears witness to the divine promise of hope in the healing justice of God, and calls human persons and human communities to parti…
Locations of God
The Hebrew Bible is hardly what might be called a "unified" account of the national history of Israel. The texts, with their myriad genres and competing perspectives, show the forming and re-forming of Ancient Israel's social body in a number of geographical settings. The communities are shown in and out of political power. We read about in-fighting and peace, good kings and bad, freedom and subjugation. Ultimately, the Hebrew Bible is a text abo…
Politics of the Ancestors
Book jacket front flap: The ancestral narratives of Genesis have a decidedly political character. The narrative presentations of ancestors and their kin reflect the relationships of the later people of Israel with their neighboring peoples. In light of the findings of recent Pentateuch research, this volume addresses important aspects of the political meaning of these narratives. The collection of nineteen contributions from internationally renow…
Religious dimensions of postcolonial policy in Australia
Over the past decade, Jürgen Habermas has provoked a conversation about some fundamental questions in public discourse. In the wake of numerous terrorist incidents, he has interrogated the polarisation of worldviews that splits societies into religious and secular camps. Habermas identified the need for a ‘postsecular’ discourse within which religious and secular contributions can learn from each other, and forge the solidarities that are necessa…
The Politics of the Ancestors
Der Band gibt wichtige Impulse zur politischen Interpretation der Erzelternerzählungen. Die Beiträge fragen nach der politischen Intention verschiedener Teilerzählungen oder literarischer Schichten. Behandelt wird auch die politische Bedeutung der Ahnfrauen. Zudem wird der politischen Rezeption der Erzelternerzählungen in der frühjüdischen Literatur sowie im Islam nachgegangen
Desert dreamers
Desert dreamers: with the Warlpiri people of Australia." Journal of Australian Studies, 42(2), pp. 258–259
The Priestly Dissemination of Abraham
The editorial activity of the Holiness School in Genesis is much more significant than previously acknowledged. While the precise extent of H additions may remain unknown, close study of H vocabulary in Genesis 17, 23 and 34 suggests that H revised earlier understandings of covenant, land and marriage. H describes the conditions under which Abraham's seed might be disseminated among others, even Canaanite others, when relationships are in good or…
Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theologies
Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theology focuses on what postcolonial theologies look like in colonial contexts, particularly in dialogue with the First Nations Peoples in Australia and the Asia-Pa
Dawkins and Badiou
This essay begins by contrasting the contributions of two leading atheists. Richard Dawkins dismisses the Bible as a disordered and chaotic anthology. Alain Badiou, in contrast, engages it (specifically the writings of Paul) as material that creatively maintains fidelity to revolutionary events. Badiou's insight is taken here as a prompt to explore the diverse biblical witnesses to creation, which, as in the case of the resurrection, resists conc…
A Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument Complex and its Early Medieval Reuse
An early Neolithic causewayed enclosure, a middle Neolithic long enclosure and an earlier Bronze Age open enclosure were among a group of prehistoric features discovered and examined by excavation at Netherfield Farm, South Petherton during archaeological mitigation work ahead of the construction of a natural gas pipeline between Ilchester and Barrington, Somerset, in 2006. Of particular interest were burnt deposits within the long enclosure ditc…
Ironworking in the Bronze Age? Evidence from a 10th Century BC Settlement at Hartshill Copse, Upper Bucklebury, West Berkshire
Excavations at Hartshill Copse in 2003 uncovered evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement, securely dated to the 10th century BC , associated with long alignments of closely set posts: prehistoric landscape features with few known parallels. Extensive sampling of the settlement remains yielded quantities of burnt flint and plain Post Deverel-Rimbury potsherds, and, quite unexpectedly, a substantial quantity of iron hammerscale. This paper presents…
Canto Ergo Sum
This essay argues that indigenous Christian theologians are justified in expanding their canonical resources to include the ancestral "Testaments" of their own people groups, and scripture itself provides a precedent. The book of Genesis reveals a pattern of respect for the distinctive religion of the ancestors. And contrary to a reading of Paul which has Galatians erase distinctive cultures, the body of Christ is as much Greek as Jew, as much Pi…
Biblical Criticism in Crisis? The Impact of the Canonical Approach on Old Testament Studies
Ironworking in the Bronze Age? Evidence from a 10th Century BC Settlement at Hartshill Copse, Upper Bucklebury, West Berkshire
Excavations at Hartshill Copse in 2003 uncovered evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement, securely dated to the 10th century BC , associated with long alignments of closely set posts: prehistoric landscape features with few known parallels. Extensive sampling of the settlement remains yielded quantities of burnt flint and plain Post Deverel-Rimbury potsherds, and, quite unexpectedly, a substantial quantity of iron hammerscale. This paper presents…
A Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument Complex and its Early Medieval Reuse
An early Neolithic causewayed enclosure, a middle Neolithic long enclosure and an earlier Bronze Age open enclosure were among a group of prehistoric features discovered and examined by excavation at Netherfield Farm, South Petherton during archaeological mitigation work ahead of the construction of a natural gas pipeline between Ilchester and Barrington, Somerset, in 2006. Of particular interest were burnt deposits within the long enclosure ditc…
Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible
A Christian imagination of colonial discovery permeated the early modern world, but legal histories developed in very different ways depending on the imperial jurisdictions. This volume explores the contradictions and ironies that emerged in the interactions between biblical warrants and colonial theories of Indigenous "natural" rights. The early debates in the Americas mutated in the British colonies with a range of different outcomes after the …
Sovereignty
Through assertions of ‘sovereignty’, modern nation states lay claim to an undivided authority. It is commonly suggested that this kind of political assertion superseded the overlapping authorities of medieval theological imagination. But in settler colonial states, Indigenous sovereignties endure to the present, not washed away by the ‘tide of history’, and in many cases Indigenous peoples embrace Christian identities along with traditional law a…
Canto Ergo Sum
This essay argues that indigenous Christian theologians are justified in expanding their canonical resources to include the ancestral "Testaments" of their own people groups, and scripture itself provides a precedent. The book of Genesis reveals a pattern of respect for the distinctive religion of the ancestors. And contrary to a reading of Paul which has Galatians erase distinctive cultures, the body of Christ is as much Greek as Jew, as much Pi…
Biblical Criticism in Crisis? The Impact of the Canonical Approach on Old Testament Studies
Canto Ergo Sum
This essay argues that indigenous Christian theologians are justified in expanding their canonical resources to include the ancestral "Testaments" of their own people groups, and scripture itself provides a precedent. The book of Genesis reveals a pattern of respect for the distinctive religion of the ancestors. And contrary to a reading of Paul which has Galatians erase distinctive cultures, the body of Christ is as much Greek as Jew, as much Pi…
Ironworking in the Bronze Age? Evidence from a 10th Century BC Settlement at Hartshill Copse, Upper Bucklebury, West Berkshire
Excavations at Hartshill Copse in 2003 uncovered evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement, securely dated to the 10th century BC , associated with long alignments of closely set posts: prehistoric landscape features with few known parallels. Extensive sampling of the settlement remains yielded quantities of burnt flint and plain Post Deverel-Rimbury potsherds, and, quite unexpectedly, a substantial quantity of iron hammerscale. This paper presents…
A Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument Complex and its Early Medieval Reuse
An early Neolithic causewayed enclosure, a middle Neolithic long enclosure and an earlier Bronze Age open enclosure were among a group of prehistoric features discovered and examined by excavation at Netherfield Farm, South Petherton during archaeological mitigation work ahead of the construction of a natural gas pipeline between Ilchester and Barrington, Somerset, in 2006. Of particular interest were burnt deposits within the long enclosure ditc…
Dawkins and Badiou
This essay begins by contrasting the contributions of two leading atheists. Richard Dawkins dismisses the Bible as a disordered and chaotic anthology. Alain Badiou, in contrast, engages it (specifically the writings of Paul) as material that creatively maintains fidelity to revolutionary events. Badiou's insight is taken here as a prompt to explore the diverse biblical witnesses to creation, which, as in the case of the resurrection, resists conc…
The Priestly Dissemination of Abraham
The editorial activity of the Holiness School in Genesis is much more significant than previously acknowledged. While the precise extent of H additions may remain unknown, close study of H vocabulary in Genesis 17, 23 and 34 suggests that H revised earlier understandings of covenant, land and marriage. H describes the conditions under which Abraham's seed might be disseminated among others, even Canaanite others, when relationships are in good or…
Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theologies
Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theology focuses on what postcolonial theologies look like in colonial contexts, particularly in dialogue with the First Nations Peoples in Australia and the Asia-Pa
Politics of the Ancestors
Book jacket front flap: The ancestral narratives of Genesis have a decidedly political character. The narrative presentations of ancestors and their kin reflect the relationships of the later people of Israel with their neighboring peoples. In light of the findings of recent Pentateuch research, this volume addresses important aspects of the political meaning of these narratives. The collection of nineteen contributions from internationally renow…
Religious dimensions of postcolonial policy in Australia
Over the past decade, Jürgen Habermas has provoked a conversation about some fundamental questions in public discourse. In the wake of numerous terrorist incidents, he has interrogated the polarisation of worldviews that splits societies into religious and secular camps. Habermas identified the need for a ‘postsecular’ discourse within which religious and secular contributions can learn from each other, and forge the solidarities that are necessa…
The Politics of the Ancestors
Der Band gibt wichtige Impulse zur politischen Interpretation der Erzelternerzählungen. Die Beiträge fragen nach der politischen Intention verschiedener Teilerzählungen oder literarischer Schichten. Behandelt wird auch die politische Bedeutung der Ahnfrauen. Zudem wird der politischen Rezeption der Erzelternerzählungen in der frühjüdischen Literatur sowie im Islam nachgegangen
Desert dreamers
Desert dreamers: with the Warlpiri people of Australia." Journal of Australian Studies, 42(2), pp. 258–259
Locations of God
The Hebrew Bible is hardly what might be called a "unified" account of the national history of Israel. The texts, with their myriad genres and competing perspectives, show the forming and re-forming of Ancient Israel's social body in a number of geographical settings. The communities are shown in and out of political power. We read about in-fighting and peace, good kings and bad, freedom and subjugation. Ultimately, the Hebrew Bible is a text abo…
The JBL Forum, an Occasional Exchange
Sovereignty
Through assertions of ‘sovereignty’, modern nation states lay claim to an undivided authority. It is commonly suggested that this kind of political assertion superseded the overlapping authorities of medieval theological imagination. But in settler colonial states, Indigenous sovereignties endure to the present, not washed away by the ‘tide of history’, and in many cases Indigenous peoples embrace Christian identities along with traditional law a…
Creation, God, and the coronavirus
This short reflection argues that, in the face of natural crises that occur in the world, responsible Christian speech requires a much fuller and more thickly textured understanding of creation than is often presented. Reading the Bible leads us to avoid speculating on the origins or purposes of such crises. Rather, it bears witness to the divine promise of hope in the healing justice of God, and calls human persons and human communities to parti…
“The Canaanites were then in the Land” and Other Shechemite Ironies
The Hexateuchal narrative arc begins with Abram’s encounter with Yhwh in Shechem in Gen 12:6–7 and ends with Joshua’s covenant at the same place in Josh 24:25–26. These “bookends” make mention of a particular tree in Shechem, which also features in Gen 35:1–4. The inherited Priestly tradition claimed that none of the ancestors in Genesis knew the name Yhwh, but the Hexateuchal editors of the Persian period insist that both El and Yhwh were known …
Humans and Other Creatures
The chapter discusses the modern sciences of ethnography and anthropology, and their impact on the history of biblical interpretation. According to Edward B. Tylor, for example, the narratives in Genesis contained indications of “animism,” as he famously framed the concept in the nineteenth century. Eschewing Tylor’s own imperial pretensions, this chapter takes up the more recent notions of animism in anthropological studies and applies them to t…
Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible
A Christian imagination of colonial discovery permeated the early modern world, but legal histories developed in very different ways depending on the imperial jurisdictions. This volume explores the contradictions and ironies that emerged in the interactions between biblical warrants and colonial theories of Indigenous "natural" rights. The early debates in the Americas mutated in the British colonies with a range of different outcomes after the …
Beyond the Academy
Usury
This paper examines the complex biblical prohibitions of interest and usury, tracing the changes from ancient Israelite subsistence economies through to modern financial arrangements. The discussion considers the question why New Testament materials played only a minor role in the formulation of Christian distinctions between interest and usury. An historical review highlights the poor laws of Exodus, ‘sibling’ ethics in Deuteronomy, emended prov…
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