[First posted in AWOL 28 April 2011, updated 29 December 2025]
The Bible and Critical Theory
ISSN : 1832-3391
he Bible & Critical Theory is
an exploratory and innovative online scholarly journal. The journal
explores the intersections between critical theory, understood in the
broadest sense, and biblical studies. It publishes peer-reviewed
articles that look at critical theory and biblical studies from a wide
range of perspectives. We particularly welcome article submissions (or
special issue ideas) that consider biblical studies from perspectives
that are often marginalized, silenced, or elided within traditional
biblical scholarship. Creative approaches are also welcome.
The journal has an active series of book reviews, which are published with each issue.
BCT content is available freely on an open-access
(non-commercial) basis. It is also aggregated by the Directory of Open
Access Journals (DOAJ) and full -text access is available on the fabulous American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Religion Database.
VOLUME 21, NO 2 (2025)
Special Issue: The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz
Guest edited by Jacqueline Hidalgo and Peter Anthony Mena
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
- “Biblical Studies and the Brown Commons: An Introduction to José Esteban Muñoz’s Work and Interpretive Possibilities” – Jacqueline M. Hidalgo and Peter Anthony Mena
- “Disidentifying Letters and a Sense of the Assemblies: On Muñoz’s Approaches and Affects” – Joseph A. Marchal
- “Sanctuary & Stages: Gay Bar Principles for a Queer Utopian Church” – Kate Common
- “In the Beginning there was Jack: House Music, Queer of Color Biblical Criticism, and Utopian Hermeneutics” – Eric A. Thomas
- “Queer Utopianism and the Telling of New Stories: The Mythological Interventions of Lee Paje’s Art” – Victoria Basug Slabinski
- “‘Come Take Ecstasy with Me’: An Ecstatic Exploration of Mark 16:1-8a” – Karri L. Alldredge
- “Cruising for the Skyward City: Muñoz and Hebrews” – Jaeda Charlotte Calaway
Books and Culture
- “How Are They Aging?“: Christopher B. Zeichmann revisits Ron Cameron and Merrill P. Miller’s Redescribing Christian Origins
Book Reviews
- Review of James Crossley and Robert Myles, Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, reviewed by Ekaputra Tupamahu
- Review of Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Bridging the Interpretive Abyss:
Reading the New Testament after the Cultural Studies Turn, reviewed by Isaac T. Soon
- Review of Anathea E. Portier-Young, The Prophetic Body: Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature, reviewed by Jennifer Koosed
- Review of Hannah M. Strømmen, The Bibles of the Far Right, reviewed by Jill Hicks-Keeton
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