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"What does theology do, actually?" is a conference series hosted by the University of Bonn. Under this years title "Exegeting Exegesis", we had the privilege of hearing from many speakers from all over the world.

From our third panel of the conference, we share with you Amy Jill Levine's talk, thank you to her for letting us share!

Panel description: Academy: Parsing the Study of Bible by Institutional Context
Scholarly exegesis of the Bible takes place in a variety of systemic and institutional contexts, each of which operate on the basis of presuppositions that can fundamentally impact the way the Bible is handled. This panel seeks to make these implicit, often impervious backgrounds explicit in order to understand the conditions in which exegesis is undertaken in various academic systems around the world. More concretely the panel brings together presenters from various global perspectives who can speak about their own contexts by reflecting on questions such as: In what sorts of institutions is exegesis practiced and taught? How do these institutions relate to other academic institutions or disciplines? And finally, in what concrete ways have exegetical debates or exegetical questions been influenced by this contextualization?

Conference description:
Central to the purposes of the What Does Theology Do, Actually? series is to observe, document, and describe the functions of theological knowledge production and communication as experienced, cultivated, and institutionalized around the world today. WDTD seeks not to do theology but to observe what theology does. The forms of theological communication vary widely by cultural and academic-institutional context. By comparing approaches to the same theological disciplines across these diverse contexts, WDTD aims to contribute to a contemporary theory of transcultural trends in contemporary theology.

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