ideological criticism – Christopher B. Zeichmann

Chapter in an upcoming book

By Christopher Zeichmann on July 31st, 2018 in Academics, ideological criticism, Scripture

Robert Myles has posted the Table of Contents for an upcoming book to which I am contributing, Class Struggle in the New Testament which will be published by Fortress Academic/Lexington Press. The Table of Contents looks amazing!

Class Struggle in the New Testament! (Robert J. Myles)
Jesus, the Temple, and the Crowd: A Way Less Traveled (Neil Elliott)
Romans Go Home? The Military as a Site of Class Struggle in the Roman East and New Testament (Christopher B. Zeichmann)
Peasant Plucking in Mark: Conceptual and Material Issues (Alan H. Cadwallader)
IVDAEA DEVICTA: The Gospels as Imperial “Captive Literature” (Robyn Faith Walsh)
Fishing for Entrepreneurs in the Sea of Galilee? Unmasking Neoliberal Ideology in Biblical Interpretation (Robert J. Myles)
Hand of the Master: Of Slaveholders and the Slave-Relation (Roland Boer and Christina Petterson)
Populist Features in the Gospel of Matthew (Bruce Worthington)
Troubling the Retainer Class in Antiquity (Sarah E. Rollens)
Rethinking Pauline Gift and Social Functions: Class Struggle in Early Christianity? (Taylor Weaver)
The Origin of Archangels: Ideological Mystification of Nobility (Deane Galbraith)
Christian Origins and the Specter of Class: Locating Class Struggle in the New Testament Today (James G. Crossley)

New article for Method and Theory in the Study of Religion

By Christopher Zeichmann on May 11th, 2018 in Academics, ideological criticism, Scripture

For those interested, an advance version of my article for the journal Method and Theory in the Study of Religion has been posted to the Brill website.

Guest blog post at The Shiloh Project

By Christopher Zeichmann on February 2nd, 2018 in Academics, ideological criticism, Scripture

A recent guest blog post at The Shiloh Project that I wrote has recently been uploaded. The Shiloh Project is important work concerning rape culture and the bible – this particular blog post addresses the healing of the centurion’s slave and how rape culture informs certain interpretations of the passage.

You can find the post here: http://shiloh-project.group.shef.ac.uk/?p=2009

New Article in Bible and Critical Theory

By Christopher Zeichmann on August 1st, 2015 in ideological criticism, Scripture

A new article I wrote was recently published in The Bible and Critical Theory. It is titled “Rethinking the Gay Centurion: Sexual Exceptionalism, National Exceptionalism in Readings of Matt. 8:5-13//Luke 7:1-10”.

You can find it online here: http://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ojsbct/index.php/bct/article/view/614

The (Un)Subversive Jesus

By Christopher Zeichmann on December 20th, 2014 in Academics, ideological criticism

Robert Myles has yet another fantastic blog post, this time examining the entirely conventional rhetoric of subversion in historical Jesus studies.

This is good food for thought as I write about the conventionality of scholarly work on the question of taxation in the Gospel of Mark. If these scholars’ Jesus were really so radical, why are they getting published by traditional media and the consumers of these books continue their lives with no difference except feeling somewhat better about themselves? Has N.T. Wright’s work ever figured even vaguely into a political demonstration?