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 Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. His teaching areas include Religion and Literature; Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; and Judaism, Christianity, Islam. His research relates ideas of authority and writing 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 completing a study of the legacy of biblical curses. Professor Britt is an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the American Academy of Religion, and the International Walter Benjamin Association.
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Representative Publications:
Alexandra Cuffel and Brian Britt, eds. Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Premodern World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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.
“Male Jealousy and the Suspected Sotah: Toward a Counter-Reading of Numbers 5:11-31,” The Bible and Critical Theory, 3 (2007): 5.1-5.19. link
“Death, Social Conflict, and the Barley Harvest in the Hebrew Bible,” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5 (2005), 28 pages. link
“The Fall from Eden, Critical Theory, and the Teletubbies,” Culture and Religion 5 (2004): 3-19. link
“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.
Representative Outreach Publication:
“Drinking the Kool-Aid,” in Sightings, a biweekly, electronic editorial published by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School, November 20, 2008. link
Republished in The Chicago Tribune (print and online editions) as “Revisiting ‘Drinking Kool-Aid.’”link