Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Bradford Anderson (Dublin City University) brings to us a presentation called “The Bible Beyond Reading: The Iconic, Contested, and Mediated Bible in Ireland.” Anderson takes a grounded theory approach to help us understand how the mediation of the Bible becomes and defines scriptural practices in modern Ireland.
Presentation Slides
Outline
1. The Iconic Bible
- a. Materiality and Acculturation
- (Book of Mulling)
- b. Iconicity and Talismanic Use
- (an Cathach)
- c. Relic Status and Cultural Identity
- (Book of Kells)
2. The Contested Bible
- a. The 1641 Depositions
- b. The Great Famine
- (19th c.)
3. The Mediated Bible
- a. Visual Mediation
- b. Cultural Mediation
- (textual, aural)
Resources
Anderson, Bradford A., and Jonathan Kearney, eds. 2018. Ireland and the Reception of the Bible: Social and Cultural Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark.
Anderson, Bradford A. 2018. “‘This booke hath bred all the quarrel’: The Bible in the 1641 Depositions.” In Ireland and the Reception of the Bible, edited by Bradford A. Anderson and Jonathan Kearney. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark.
Bennett, Jane. 2010. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University Press.
Boyle, Elizabeth. 2021. History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland. New York: Routledge.
Dillon, Amanda. 2018. “The Book of Kells and the Visual Identity of Ireland.” In Ireland and the Reception of the Bible, edited by Bradford A. Anderson and Jonathan Kearney, 295-31. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark.
Hill, Christopher. 1994. The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution. London: Penguin.
Latour, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McNamara, Martin. 2022. The Bible in the Early Irish Church, A.D. 550 to 850. Leiden: Brill.
Mobitt, Miriam. 2008. Soupers & Jumpers: The Protestant Missions in Connemara, 1848–1937. Dublin: Nonsuch.
Parmenter, Dorina Miller. 2006. “The Iconic Book: The Image of the Bible in Early Christian Rituals.” Postscripts 2: 160–189.
Poleg, Eyal. 2016. Approaching the Bible in Medieval England. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Schleicher, Marianne. 2023. “Jewish Women and Sacred Text(ure)s: Making Women’s Religious Agency in Jewish Book Culture Intelligible.” Postscripts 14: 65-94.
Watts, James W. 2006. “The Three Dimensions of Scriptures.” Postscripts 2: 135–159.
Whelan, Irene. 2005. The Bible War in Ireland: The “Second Reformation” and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800–1840. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
