Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century

Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Gregory L. Cuéllar

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-08-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 3030240282

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Since the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs. Yet, absent in biblical scholarship is a thorough and critical examination of the instrumentality of the discipline’s master archives for elite power structures. Addressing this gap in biblical scholarship lies central to this book. Interrogated here is a premier repository or master archive of the discipline: the British Museum. Using an assemblage of critical theories from archival discourse to postcolonial studies, space theory to governmentality studies, the focal point of this book is at the intersections of the Museum’s rise to scientific prominence, the British Empire, and the conferring of scientific authority to modern biblical critics in the nineteenth century. Gregory L. Cuéllar initiates a season of historicization of the master archives of biblical studies and archival criticism.


A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L

Author: T. Bose

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 0774844833

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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.