The Oxford illustrated history of the Bible / edited by John Rogerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogerson, J. W. (John William), 1935-2018.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--History.

Bible.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 395 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Illustrated history of the Bible

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

The Bible has been in continuous use for nearly 2000 years and the larger part--the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament--is much older. It has played a central role throughout western history, as a source of conflict at many levels, and mspirer of heroic acts of witness both individually and collectively. Today it continues to inspire people working for a better world and a better humanity. It is the single greatest influence on the development of English literature, and subject of some of the world's finest art and music. Yet, surprisingly, its actual contents vary across different versions and translations, and remain a matter for serious debate to the present day.

Here a distinguished team of scholars presents an authoritative account of that story, richly illustrated, and bringing to bear the latest findings. It tells how and why a collection of writings in Semitic languages and Greek that we now call the Books of the Bible came to be written over a period of about 800 years; and how even before the Bible existed as one volume its constituent parts were interpreted and subjected to a scrutiny that no other writing has had to endure. The story traces the several routes whereby what was to be called the canon of Scripture was determined, and controversies surrounding which writings should be regarded as authoritative. It describes how over centuries the writings were copied, translated, and printed; how interpreted in Judaism and in the churches in the East and the West, and it concludes with surveys of how the Bible is being used today in feminist criticism, and in the movements for theological liberation in Latin America, Africa, and Europe.

Contents:

The Making of the Bible 1

I. The Historical Background

1. The Old Testament / John Rogerson 2

2. The Apocrypha / Philip Davies 26

3. The New Testament / Margaret Davies 36

The Making of the Bible 59

II. Text and Translation

4. The Hebrew Bible / Geoffrey Khan 60

5. The Apocrypha / Philip Davies 98

6. The New Testament / David Parker 110

7. Modern Translations / Stanley E. Porter 134

The Study and Use of the Bible 163

8. The Early Church / Henning Graf Reventlow 166

9. The Middle Ages to the Reformation / G. R. Evans 180

10. The Reformation to 1700 / David Wright 192

11. 1700 to the Present / Ronald Clements 218

12. The Bible in the Eastern Churches / George Bebawi 242

13. The Bible in Judaism / Philip Alexander 256

14. The Bible in Literature / David Jasper 278

Contemporary Interpretation 293

15. Feminist Scholarship / Yvonne Sherwood 296

16(a). Liberation Theology: Latin America / M. Daniel Carroll R. 316

16(b). Liberation Theology: Africa and the Bible / Gerald West 330

16(c). Liberation Theology: Europe / Luise Schottroff 344.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-381) and index.

ISBN:

0198601182

OCLC:

59521026