ABSTRACT
The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation.
Contributions from leading scholars in the field present wide-ranging views not just of biblical materials and their literary and linguistic context, but also of the social institutions, history and archaeology, and religious concepts. New chapters cover topics such as the priesthood and festivals, creation and covenant, ethics, and family life, while a new section on biblical interpretation discusses Jewish and Christian bible translation and key thematic emphases, and modern reader-response and cultural approaches.
This revised edition of The Biblical World offers an up-to-date and thorough survey of the Bible and its world, and will continue to be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament and their history and interpretation, as well as anyone working on the societies, religions, and political and cultural institutions that created and influenced these texts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|82 pages
The Bible
part II|167 pages
The Canon
part III|154 pages
Documents
part IV|185 pages
History
chapter Chapter Twenty-Eight|19 pages
Exile, migration, and diaspora after the fall of Jerusalem in the sixth century BCE
part V|293 pages
Institutions
chapter Chapter Thirty-FIVE|19 pages
The Arts
chapter Chapter Forty-four|21 pages
New Testament christology
part VI|116 pages
Biblical interpretation past and present