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Print Price: $122.50

Format:
Paperback
920 pp.
171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199237777

Publication date:
March 2008

Imprint: OUP UK


The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies

Edited by J. W. Rogerson and Judith M. Lieu

Series : Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology

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.

Readership : Scholars and students of biblical studies and of theology.

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I. On the Discipline
J. W. Rogerson: History of the discipline in the last 70 years: Old Testament
Robert Morgan: History of the discipline in the last 70 years
John Bartlett: Archaeology
W. G. Lambert: Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia
Kenneth Kitchen: Ancient Near East: Egypt
Philip Davies: Qumran studies
Peter Richardson: Study of the Graeco-Roman world
Catherine Hezser: Diaspora and rabbinic Judaism
II. Languages, translation, and textual transmission of the Bible
John Elwolde: Language and translation of the Old Testament
Michael Knibb: Language, translation, versions, and text of the Apocrypha
Stanley E. Porter: Language and translation of the New Testament
Gerard Norton: Ancient versions and textual transmission of the Old Testament
Neville Birdsall: Versions and textual transmission of the New Testament
III. Historical and social study of the Bible
Keith W. Whitelam: Introduction
J. W. Rogerson: Israel to the end of the Persian period
Lester L. Grabbe: Israel from the rise of Hellenism to 70 CE
Craig A. Evans: The life and teaching of Jesus and the rise of Christianity
Robert Hayward: Priesthood, temple(s), and sacrifice
Gordon Wenham: Law
Lester L. Grabbe: Scribes and synagogues
Judith M. Lieu: Movements
Deborah Rooke: Prophecy
Philip Davies: Apocalyptic
Katharine Dell: Wisdom
Eric Gruen: Novella
Richard Burridge: Gospels
Judith M. Lieu: Epistles
IV. The composition of the Bible
Reinhard G. Kratz: The growth of the Old Testament
Alison Salvesen: The growth of the Apocrypha
John Court: The growth of the New Testament
Alan Millard: Authors, books, and readers in the ancient world
V. Methods in biblical scholarship
John Bartlett: Archaeology
Arie van de Kooij: Textual criticism
Johannes P. Floss: Form, source, and redaction criticism
Margaret Mitchell: Rhetorical and new literary criticism
Marie-Theres Wacker: Feminist and womanist criticism
Chris Rowland: Social, political, and ideological criticism
VI. The interpretation of the Bible
Walter Brueggemann: Old Testament theology
J. D. G. Dunn: New Testament theology
Bernd Janowski: Biblical theology
Eryl W. Davies: The Bible in ethics
Jonathan Magonet: Jewish interpretation of the Bible
VII. The authority of the Bible
Lee Martin McDonald: Canon
Harriet A. Harris: Fundamentalism(s)
J. W. Rogerson: Historical criticism and biblical authority

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J. W. Rogerson is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield.
Judith M.Lieu is Professor of New Testament Studies, King's College London.

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Special Features

  • State-of-the-art survey of contemporary Biblical Studies
  • Represents diversity in current scholarship
  • Invaluable for both academics and students
  • Forty-five specially written contributions by an outstanding international team
  • The most comprehensive and authoritative guide available
  • Part of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks series