Bruce Malina

Bruce John Malina (Brooklyn, New York, 9 October 1933) is an American biblical scholar associated with The Context Group.[1] Among Bruce Malina's studies are gender roles in the New Testament world.[2]

Recent criticism

Malina has recently come under fire for his controversial views on the Israel/Palestine conflict and how this has influenced his scholarship. On the one hand, it is claimed that he takes a firm stance against the modern state of Israel, going as far as to deny the Semitic ancestry of modern Israelis; on the other hand, critics say that Malina often ends up buying into Zionist discourses on the meaning of the term ‘Jew’ or ‘Judean’ (hoi ioudaioi), arguing that it refers to 'the land'.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bruce John Malina, John J. Pilch (ed.), Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible. Essays by the Context Group in Honor of Bruce J. Malina, Leiden: Brill, 2000, p. 1 "Bruce was born on October 9th, 1933 to Mary and Joseph Malina, St., in Brooklyn, NY, the oldest of nine children. His early education was taken at Our Lady of ...
  2. ↑ Adeline Fehribach, The Women in the Life of the Bridegroom: A Feminist Historical-literary Analysis of the Female Characters in the Fourth Gospel, Liturgical Press, 1998, p. 13 "Bruce Malina has attempted to reconstruct gender roles for the New Testament world by drawing on the research cultural anthropologists have done on the concept of "honor and shame" in the Mediterranean area."
  3. ↑ Myles, Robert; James Crossley (Dec 2012). "Biblical Scholarship, Jews and Israel: On Bruce Malina, Conspiracy Theories and Ideological Contradictions". The Bible and Interpretation.


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