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Highlight: The modern midrashic hermeneutical reformation
Although this wiki covers anything and everything Bible, the primary inspiration that got us started was the modern midrashic hermeneutical reformation which been rising within academia since around the 1980s and is now increasingly beginning to reach the laity largely via the help of video/podcast material favorably accessible to the modern information consumer. Learn from midrashic hermeneutical resources or participate in midrashic hermeneutical discussion communities.
Participate easily!
Bible Wiki loves lists (like this one)! One quick and easy way to help build this knowledgebase is to simply add a bullet point to one of our existing lists such as:
- List of chiasms in the Bible, from meta-high-level (e.g. Genesis+Exodus, the book of Leviticus, John+Revelation) to micro-level (e.g. Mark 2:27)
- List of midrashic hermeneutical resources (e.g. AlephBeta, Theopolis, BibleProject)
- List of midrashic literary tools (e.g. intertextuality, chiasm, juxtaposition, parallelism)
You need not even write a complete sentence! Just include enough data that other Bible Wiki editors, or your future self, can understand what is intended and flesh-out the information more fully later, if so desired.
We use the same MediaWiki software that Wikipedia runs on, so if you have have ever edited over there, the experience (from a technical standpoint) should be similar here.
Deeper participation
This wiki is new and we are taking a gradual approach to opening up the configuration parameters so as not to become overcome by spambots and whatnot before the technical and personnel guardrails are in place to prevent such nuisances. Anonymous users can read the entire site, add to or edit existing pages, and create new Talk/Discussion pages, but for now you need an admin to create an account for you if you wish to create new (article) pages.