The Bible was Written Backwards

Reception History in the Bible - Reception History of the Bible.

I’m Dr. Matt Monger, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at MF School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo.

I’ll be posting videos with examples of the Bible being read from the perspective of reception history - how older texts and traditions are adapted and retold in new contexts. I’ll be using this method to talk about the Bible in two ways:

- Looking at passages in the Bible we will see that the Bible was not written looking forward to much of anything, but backward at the texts, traditions, and stories of the context it comes from.

- Looking at later texts that rewrite the Bible we will see how people have been negotiating the meaning of the Bible and reinterpreting it into new contexts and media since the very beginning.