Interstitiality

Wabash Consultation

I will be at a Wabash consultation all week in downtown Chicago. The consultation is examining the role of race/culture/ethnicity in reading and teaching the bible. There are fifteen of us--five African Americans, five Asian Americans, and five Latino/a Americans. Four from each group are biblical scholars, and each cluster has one scholar who teaches in cultural studies. There are two Hebrew Bible scholars and two New Testament scholars in each group as well. We have seven women and eight men, so the gender balance is good. We spend our days sharing papers, syllabi, and having conversations about race/ethnicity/culture and the bible. We eat at some fine eating establishments, all of which have a distinct “cultural” element. In the evenings, we go to plays, musicals, events, again with each event having a cultural/racial/ethnic flavor to it. It is a good group of folks, and this is our last official meeting. Should be a good week. The essays that we are looking at this week should be coming out in a future volume.