After thoroughly enjoying the Bible and Critical Theory Seminar, I’ve decided give staid and stuffy scholarship a bit of a shove this year. So I am going to submit a series of essays to prudish journals and watch them squirm:
1. Hittites, Horses and Corpses: On Bestiality and the Bible. Maybe for Vetus Testamentum.
2. Jacob’s Nuts, or the Yarekh Handshake. Perhaps for the Catholic Biblical Quarterly or Pacifica.
3. Hooker Hermeneutics. This one has got to go to the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.
4. Too Many Dicks on the Threshing Floor, or, How to Organise a Prophetic Sausage-Fest. Journal of Biblical Literature.
Needless to day, they will probably reject them in righteous indignation, claiming that they are not ‘serious’ scholarship, that the language is ‘inappropriate’ etc etc. And so I plan to use the referee comments as the basis of a sustained critique in another study, which I will then send to one of aforesaid journals.
10 February, 2010 at 11:47 am
They all sound wonderful. I’d love to see the referee comments
10 February, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Oh, you will. I promise to publish them right here when I get them.
11 February, 2010 at 3:27 am
Of course, if they reject you on the basis of close scrutiny and substantive critique of your work, you promise to publish that too, right? Or will you only do so if the review comments fit your fantasies of them?
I don’t know… folks who go around squawking about “prudish” journals and how their own work will deliciously upset the prudes and make them squirm have always struck me as hopelessly locked in a parasitic embrace with the alleged Old Boys Club. It’s like you need them to play their role in order for you to feel like you have role of your own.
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11 February, 2010 at 7:25 am
Evan, good point!! But of course, I will publish all comments, even a few fabricated ones. One reason for trying out this approach is that I have had many run-ins with such journals in the past (see my ‘about’ page), so I thought I’d push it a little further. And I find it astonishing how quickly and smoothly yesterday’s radical becomes today’s institutional toady.
11 February, 2010 at 8:34 am
And I find it astonishing how quickly and smoothly yesterday’s radical becomes today’s institutional toady.
What can I say? I’m a complicated man.
…by which I mean that I’m relatively disinterested in the whole radical-toady dichotomy you’ve got going here.
11 February, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Is that because of your earlier avowed aversion to radicalism?
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