Description |
1 online resource (xv, 725 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford handbooks.
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Contents |
I. Genesis / Rachel Havrelock -- Job / John F.A. Sawyer -- Psalms / Katherine J. Dell -- Isaiah / John F.A. Sawyer -- Ezekiel / Paul M. Joyce -- Daniel / John J. Collins -- Judges / David M. Gunn -- Gospel of John / Catrin H. Williams -- Romans / Guy J. Williams -- Corinthians / Judith L. Kovacs -- Galatians / John Riches -- Revelation / Christopher Rowland |
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II. The Bible and iconography / Albert C. Labriola -- Linguistic and cultural influences on interpretation in translations of the Bible / David J. Clark -- Memory, imagination, and the interpretation of Scripture in the Middle Ages / Mary Carruthers -- The origins, scope, and spread of the millenarian idea / Peter Clarke -- Non-retaliation and military force : their basis in the Bible / Richard Harries -- The Bible and anti-Semitism / Tobias Nicklas -- Dante and the Bible : a sketch / Piero Boitani -- George Friedric Handel and The Messiah / John Butt -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The women's Bible / Ann Loades -- Uchimura and the Bible in Japan / Atsuhiro Asano -- One Bible, two preachers : patchwork sermons and sacred art in the American South / Carol Crown -- Bob Dylan's Bible / Michael J. Gilmour -- From John's Gospel to Dan Brown : the Magdalene code / Robin Griffith-Jones -- Gnostic Interpretations of Genesis / Ismo Dunderberg -- Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Huxley, and Genesis / John Hedley Brooke -- Sodomy and gendered love : reading Genesis 19 in the Anglican communion / Jay Emerson Johnson |
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Exodus in early twentieth century America : Charles Reynolds Brown and Lawrence Langner / Scott M. Langston -- Exodus in Latin America / Paulo Nogueira -- Elihu's spiritual sensation : William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job / Emma Mason -- Ezekiel 1 and the Nation of Islam / Michael Lieb -- Post-Holocaust Jewish Interpretations of Job / Isabel Wollaston -- Seventh-Day Adventists, Daniel, and Revelation / Kenneth G.C. Newport -- Esther and Hitler : a second triumphant Purim / Jo Carruthers -- Kierkegaard on the lilies and the birds : Matthew 6 / George Pattison -- Ghandi's interpretation of the Sermon on the mount / Jeremy Holtom -- Preaching, politics, and Paul in contemporary African American Christianity / Brad Braxton -- Ruskin, the Bible, and the death of Rose La Touche : a torn manuscript of the human soul / Zoƫ Bennett -- Karl Barth on Romans / Tim Gorringe -- Augustine and Pelagius on the Epistle to the Romans / Mark Edwards -- Luther on Galatians / Peter Matheson -- Joanna Southcott : enacting the woman clothed with the sun / Gordon Allan -- Bible reading and/after theory / Valentine Cunningham |
Summary |
This volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts. Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of 12 key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular biblical passages or books |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Bible -- Reader-response criticism.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010904
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Bible -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013652
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Bible fast |
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Reader-response criticism
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Christianity.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lieb, Michael, 1940-
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Mason, Emma
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Rowland, Christopher, 1947-
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LC no. |
2011280273 |
ISBN |
0191724823 |
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9780191724824 |
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