The Oxford illustrated history of the Bible / [print]
Illustrated history of the Bible
edited by John Rogerson.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2001.
- xvi, 395 pages, 16. pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
The making of the Bible. The Old Testament The apocrypha The New Testament The Hebrew Bible The apocrypha The New Testament Modern translations The study and use of the Bible. The early church The Middle Ages to the Reformation The Reformation to 1700 1700 to the present The Bible in Eastern churches The Bible in Judaism The Bible in literature Contemporary interpretations. Feminist scholarship Liberation theology : Latin America Liberation theology : Africa and the Bible -- Liberation theology : Europe John Rogerson -- Philip Davies -- Margaret Davies -- Geoffrey Khan -- Philip Davies -- David Parker -- Stanley E. Porter -- Henning Graf Reventlow -- G.R. Evans -- David Wright -- Ronald Clements -- George Bebawi -- Philip Alexander -- David Jasper -- Yvonne Sherwood -- M. Daniel Carroll R. -- Luise Schottroff.
Tells how and why a collection of writings in Semitic languages and Greek 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. 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. 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 concludes with surveys of how the Bible is being used today in feminist criticism, and in movements for theological liberation in Latin America, Africa, and Europe.