Whose Bible Is It Anyway

Author : Philip R. Davies
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781850755692

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"Can religious writings make sense to any reader who does not accept the reality of the deities to which they refer? Do Christians understand the Old Testament better than the Jews understand their Bible?" "The Bible, argues this book, may belong to the Church or synagogue as an instrument of religious practice, but as an object of academic study it belongs to the world as a whole, and so can function in theory and practice as a secular discourse." "Whose Bible is it Anyway? shows how a genuinely academic discourse - one that distances itself from received canons of interpretation - about biblical writings can: expose a subtext of deceit within the Creation narratives; re-conceptualize the relationship between Abraham and his deity; reveal lament psalms as texts of oppression; and identify the death of Daniel's God."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015060600536

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Whose Bible is It? by Jaroslav Pelikan Pdf

Both an enduring work of scholarship and a fascinating read, this grand history of the good book is written by the premiere historian of theology of our time.

Author : Philip R. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567438911

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Whose Bible Is It Anyway? by Philip R. Davies Pdf

The Bible, argues this book, may belong to the Church or synagogue as an instrument of religious practice. But as the object of academic study it belongs to the world as a whole. Confessional biblical studies belong to a discipline better termed 'scripture', with 'biblical studies' designating a discipline that imposes no religious conditions and includes any form of rational discourse about the bible. A basic requirement of this discipline is to speak not of 'the Bible' but of 'bibles'. A number of exegetical studies suggest how a genuinely academic discourse about biblical writings, distancing itself from received canons of interpretation, can expose a subtext of deceit within the creation narratives, reconceptualize the relationship of Abraham and his deity, reveal lament psalms as texts of oppression, and identify the death of Daniel's God. In new chapters for this second edition, Davies evaluates how the film Monty Python's Life of Brian contributes to "life of Jesus" research. Here is a challenge to conventional biblical scholarship and a bid to define and establish a genuine academic discipline of biblical studies.

Author : Philip R. Davies
Publisher : Sheffield Academic Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567438856

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Whose Bible Is It Anyway? by Philip R. Davies Pdf

The Bible, argues this book, may belong to the Church or synagogue as an instrument of religious practice. But as the object of academic study it belongs to the world as a whole. Confessional biblical studies belong to a discipline better termed 'scripture', with 'biblical studies' designating a discipline that imposes no religious conditions and includes any form of rational discourse about the bible. A basic requirement of this discipline is to speak not of 'the Bible' but of 'bibles'. A number of exegetical studies suggest how a genuinely academic discourse about biblical writings, distancing itself from received canons of interpretation, can expose a subtext of deceit within the creation narratives, reconceptualize the relationship of Abraham and his deity, reveal lament psalms as texts of oppression, and identify the death of Daniel's God. In new chapters for this second edition, Davies evaluates how the film Monty Python's Life of Brian contributes to "life of Jesus" research. Here is a challenge to conventional biblical scholarship and a bid to define and establish a genuine academic discipline of biblical studies.

Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0143036777

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Whose Bible Is It? by Jaroslav Pelikan Pdf

Jaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging account of the Bible’s journey from oral narrative to Hebrew and Greek text to today’s countless editions. Pelikan explores the evolution of the Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic versions and the development of the printing press and its effect on the Reformation, the translation into modern languages, and varying schools of critical scholarship. Whose Bible Is It? is a triumph of scholarship that is also a pleasure to read.

Author : Jaroslav Jan Pelikan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1322733899

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Whose Bible is It? by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Pdf

Author : Esther Fuchs
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498527828

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Feminist Theory and the Bible by Esther Fuchs Pdf

Feminist Theory and the Bible conceptualizes, contextualizes, and maps a new kind of burgeoning scholarship that has emerged in recent decades. The chapters included here consider both the theory and practice of feminist Biblical studies.

Author : David G. Ford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532636820

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Reading the Bible outside the Church by David G. Ford Pdf

In many places in the Western world, churchgoing is in decline and it cannot be assumed that people have a good grasp of the Bible's content. In this evolving situation, how would "the person on the street" read the Bible? Reading the Bible Outside the Church begins to answer this question. David Ford spent ten months at a chemical industrial plant providing non-churchgoing men with the opportunity to read and respond to five different biblical texts. Using an in-depth qualitative methodology, he charts how their prior experiences of religion, sense of (non)religious identity, attitudes towards the Bible, and beliefs about the Bible all shaped the readings that occurred.

Author : Susanne Scholz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567577085

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Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible by Susanne Scholz Pdf

This book introduces readers to the diverse field of feminist studies on the Hebrew Bible. Not organized as a traditional introduction to the "Old Testament," the manuscript does not follow a biblical book-by-book structure, but provides an introductory survey of the history and issues as they relate to feminist readings and readers of the Hebrew Bible. Accordingly, feminist scholars of the Bible, their career struggles, and biblical texts, characters, and themes stand in the forefront of this introduction. The volume is biased toward "Western" feminist scholarship because of the historical developments of feminist scholarship in general and biblical studies in particular. Yet, the chapters also include African, Asian, and Latin American perspectives on feminist studies of the Hebrew Bible. In short, the book offers an overview on the historical, social, and academic developments of reading the Hebrew Bible as the "Women's Hebrew Bible."

Author : Darren Sarisky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108497480

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Reading the Bible Theologically by Darren Sarisky Pdf

Examines what theological reading is, and how it shapes the interpretation of Biblical text through explicit focus on the reader.

Author : Marc Zvi Brettler,Peter Enns,Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190218713

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The Bible and the Believer by Marc Zvi Brettler,Peter Enns,Daniel J. Harrington Pdf

Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways? The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant--to illustrate how to read the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament critically and religiously. Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington tackle a dilemma that not only haunts biblical scholarship today, but also disturbs students and others exposed to biblical criticism for the first time, either in university courses or through their own reading. Failure to resolve these conflicting interpretive strategies often results in rejection of either the critical approach or the religious approach--or both. But the authors demonstrate how biblical criticism--the process of establishing the original contextual meaning of biblical texts with the tools of literary and historical analysis--need not undermine religious interpretations of the Bible, but can in fact enhance them. They show how awareness of new archeological evidence, cultural context, literary form, and other tools of historical criticism can provide the necessary preparation for a sound religious reading. And they argue that the challenges such study raises for religious belief should be brought into conversation with religious tradition rather than deemed grounds for dismissing either that tradition or biblical criticism. Guiding readers through the history of biblical exegesis within the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faith traditions, The Bible and the Believer bridges an age-old gap between critical and religious approaches to the Old Testament.

Author : Gillian M. Bediako
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850756724

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Primal Religion and the Bible by Gillian M. Bediako Pdf

This important study of the published and unpublished writings of Scotland's most brilliant and controversial nineteenth-century theologian focuses on his concern to situate biblical religion within the context of the primal religions of Israel's neighbours. The book explores the implications of the relationship between the Christian faith and primal religion. Robertson Smith has still a contribution to make to contemporary discussion of the phenomenology of the Christian faith and Christian responses to religious pluralism.

Author : Norman K. Gottwald
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498292214

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Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Three by Norman K. Gottwald Pdf

PART 1: EXAMINING TEXTS 1. Social Drama in the Psalms of Individual Lament 2. Kingship in the Book of Psalms 3. Abusing the Bible: The Case of Deuteronomy 15 4. Do not Fear What They Fear: A Post-9/11 Reflection(Isaiah 8:11-15) 5. The Expropriated and the Expropriators in Nehemiah 5 6. How Do Extrabiblical Sociopolitical Data Illuminate Obscure Biblical Texts? The Case of Ecclesiastes 5:8-9 [Heb. 5:7-8] 7. On the Alleged Wisdom of Kings: An Application of Adorno's Immanent Criticism to Ecclesiastes PART 2: ENGAGING PRACTICES 8. Framing Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary: A Student Self Inventory on Biblical Hermeneutics 9. Theological Education as a Theory-Praxis Loop: Situating the Book of Joshua in a Cultural, Social Ethical, and Theological Matrix 10. The Bible as Nurturer of Passive and Active Worldviews 11. Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse 12. On Framing Elections: The Stories We Tell Ourselves 13. Values and Economic Structures

Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan,Carole Fontaine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567417220

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Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible by Athalya Brenner-Idan,Carole Fontaine Pdf

A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods and Strategies forms a conclusion to the series of 10 volumes published in the groundbreaking Feminist Companion to the Bible since 1993. Not only is this the companion to the Companion, but, it is at the same time the forerunner and companion to a second series of nine volumes of the Feminist Companion. In all, there will be a unique collection of 20 volumes representing the enormous range of influence that feminist criticism has come to have in biblical studies. Anchored always in particular biblical texts, the essays in this multi-authored Companion to Reading the Bible have a distinct methodological slant, reflecting the numerous developments in feminist criticism that have occurred since the first books in the series were published, and forming an indispensable handbook for every biblical scholar and student today.

Author : M. Patrick Graham,Richard R. Marrs,Steven L. McKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567394217

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Worship and the Hebrew Bible by M. Patrick Graham,Richard R. Marrs,Steven L. McKenzie Pdf

A collection of fifteen articles by colleagues and former students of Professor Willis of Abilene Christian University. The papers deal with the topic of worship from a variety of perspectives and, in different connections, with the life and thought of ancient Israel. These include the participation of foreigners in the worship of ancient Israel, the prophetic critique of the cult, the tradition of the construction of the Jerusalem temple, women and prayer in the Deutero-canonical literature, various ethical aspects of worship and the value placed on the internal dynamics of worship offered to God, the Psalms and ancient Near Eastern mourning customs, and some of the implications of the Old Testament tradition regarding worship for contemporary communities of faith. A select bibliography of Willis's writings is also included.