The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Biblical studies is a highly technical and diverse field. Study of the Bible demands expertise in fields ranging from Archaeology, Egyptology, Assyriology, and Linguistics through textual, historical, and sociological studies to Literary Theory, Feminism, Philosophy, and Theology, to name only some. This authoritative and compelling guide to the discipline will, therefore, be an invaluable reference work for all students and academics who want to explore more fully essential topics in Biblical studies.
| ISBN | 0199237778 | | Pages | 916 | | ISBN13 | 9780199237777
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 1579 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology | | Publication date | 28 Feb 2008 | | Height (mm) | 246 | | Library of Congress | 2008274024 | | Width (mm) | 170 | | DEWEY | 220.6 | | Spine width (mm) | 46 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate |
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I. ON THE DISCIPLINE; History of the discipline in the last 70 years: Old Testament; History of the discipline in the last 70 years; Archaeology; Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East: Egypt; Qumran studies; Study of the Graeco-Roman world; Diaspora and rabbinic Judaism; II. LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION, AND TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION OF THE BIBLE; Language and translation of the Old Testament; Language, translation, versions, and text of the Apocrypha; Language and translation of the New Testament; Ancient versions and textual transmission of the Old Testament; Versions and textual transmission of the New Testament; III. HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL STUDY OF THE BIBLE; Introduction; Israel to the end of the Persian period; Israel from the rise of Hellenism to 70 CE; The life and teaching of Jesus and the rise of Christianity; Priesthood, temple(s), and sacrifice; Law; Scribes and synagogues; Movements; Prophecy; Apocalyptic; Wisdom; Novella; Gospels; Epistles; IV. THE COMPOSITION OF THE BIBLE; The growth of the Old Testament; The growth of the Apocrypha; The growth of the New Testament; Authors, books, and readers in the ancient world; V. METHODS IN BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP; Archaeology; Textual criticism; Form, source, and redaction criticism; Rhetorical and new literary criticism; Feminist and womanist criticism; Social, political, and ideological criticism; VI. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE; Old Testament theology; New Testament theology; Biblical theology; The Bible in ethics; Jewish interpretation of the Bible; VII. THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE; Canon; Fundamentalism(s); Historical criticism and biblical authority
The present exhaustive volume offers an up-to-date comprehensive survey of Biblical studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Christoph Stenschke, Dharma Deepika This substantial collection of essays provides a good survey to current Biblical Studies... The arrangement of the articles as well as the focus of the volume raises a number of interesting issues for evangelical readers. Christoph Stenschke, European Journal of Theology ...this volume succeeds not only its breadth, but also in the high quality of its essays, making this handbook the likely standard for many years to come in the area of biblical studies...Rogerson and Lieu have provided an excellent resource for biblical scholars that constitutes the most up-to-date and comprehensive handbook of its kind. Michael J. Kruger The Expository Times
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