The Politics of Biblical Interpretation: Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon

Our guests, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon, talk about their recent book, Does Scripture Speak for Itself? The book examines the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, and how race, money, and institution-building shape fights over the Bible and Christianity in US public life. This book will be essential for readers interested in evangelicalism, the study of the Bible, and intersections of race and religion in the US.

Jill Hicks-Keeton is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2018), for which she was awarded the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise.

Cavan Concannon is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Profaning Paul (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Assembling Early Christianity: Trade Networks and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and 'When you were Gentiles': Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence (Yale University Press, 2014).