What is it about?
Different groups have voiced concern about decline in people's knowledge of the Bible and the ability to recognise biblical allusions in other contexts. In 2011, the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield (now SIIBS) held a conference for people involved in education to discuss "Biblical Literacy and the Curriculum". This article brings together three different experiments that bring the Bible into higher education courses, using its resources to inform teaching and learning in the fields of English literature, economics, business studies, and creative writing.
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Why is it important?
Although comments about biblical literacy are pervasive in popular discourse, there is a limited scholarly literature and pragmatic approaches to addressing the perceived gap in knowledge are not well documented. This article is part of a larger attempt to fill those gaps. A companion piece is included in the T&T Clark volume, Rethinking Biblical Literacy (ed. K. Edwards, 2015).
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As Coordinator of Sheffield's King James Bible Project, I also co-edited the four papers from the conference collected together in this issue of the Postscripts Journal. Together with the Rethinking Biblical Literacy volume, they contextualise discussion of Biblical Literacy (and the lack thereof) in British and North American settings.
Dr Iona C Hine
University of Sheffield
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This page is a summary of: Practicing Biblical Literacy: Case Studies from the Sheffield Conference, Postscripts The Journal of Sacred Texts Cultural Histories and Contemporary Contexts, July 2014, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/post.v7i2.173.
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