Brian Britt
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Ph.D. in Religion and Literature at the University of Chicago, 1992.
Brian Britt is a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. His teaching areas include Religion and Literature; Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; and Judaism, Christianity, Islam. His research relates ideas of text from the Hebrew Bible to contemporary culture. His second book, Rewriting Moses: The Narrative Eclipse of the Text, appeared in 2004, and he is currently working on a study of the legacy of biblical curses. Professor Britt is an active member of both the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion.
Representative Publications:
Rewriting Moses: The Narrative Eclipse of the Text. London: T & T Clark, 2004.
Walter Benjamin and the Bible. New York: Continuum: 1996, and Mellen Press, 2003.
“Death, Social Conflict, and the Barley Harvest in the Hebrew Bible,” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5 (2005), http://www.jhsonline.org, 28 pages.
“The Fall from Eden, Critical Theory, and the Teletubbies,” Culture and Religion 5 (2004): 3-19.
"Unexpected Attachments: A Literary Approach to the Term Chesed in the Hebrew Bible." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 27 (2003): 289-307.
"Prophetic Concealment in a Biblical Type Scene." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 64 (2002): 37-58.
"Romantic Roots of the Debate on the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible." Prooftexts 20 (2000): 262-89.
"Apology for the Text, or Wigs and Veils." Literature and Theology 14 (2000): 412-29.