Prof. Luis Menéndez-Antuña Awarded Louisville Institute Sabbatical Research Grant

Assistant Professor of New Testament Luis Menéndez-Antuña has been awarded a Sabbatical Grant for Researchers by the Louisville Institute. The grant will allow Prof. Menéndez-Antuña to spend a year on sabbatical writing his proposed book, titled “New Testament Studies After the Cultural Turn. Thinking Biblical Literature in the Midst of Global Crises.”

“There are many things I would like to mention about this work but the most important would be the following one: in biblical studies, and theology at large, there is this tacit understanding that there is on the one hand ‘serious scholarship,’ and then ‘contextual scholarship,’” writes Menéndez-Antuña. “As the story goes, we have solid exegetical work on the one hand, and then we have derivative scholarship done by minority scholars who are concerned with specific contexts. This work not only challenges this assumption, it shows that biblical scholarship that takes present contemporary contexts seriously enhances our understanding of the biblical past.”