The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 January 2011
- ISBN 9780199204540
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages742 pages
- Size 252x181x46 mm
- Weight 1452 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 in-text black and white figures 0
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Short description:
This wide-ranging volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts; Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of twelve 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.
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In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of biblical texts, reception history focuses on exploring the history of interpretation. In doing so it locates the dominant historical-critical scholarly paradigm within the history of interpretation, rather than over and above it. At the same time, the breadth of material and hermeneutical issues that reception history engages with questions any narrow understanding of the history of the Bible and its effects on faith communities.
The challenge that reception history faces is to explore tradition without either reducing its meaning to what faith communities think is important, or merely offering anthologies of interesting historical interpretations. This major new handbook addresses these matters by presenting reception history as an enterprise (not a method) that questions and understands tradition afresh.
The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible consciously allows for the interplay of the traditional and the new through a two-part structure. Part I comprises a set of essays surveying the outline, form, and content of twelve 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 key biblical passages or books with due regard for the specificity of their social, cultural or aesthetic context.
These case studies span two millennia of interpretation by readers with widely differing perspectives. Some are at the level of a group response (from Gnostic readings of Genesis, to Post-Holocaust Jewish interpretations of Job); others examine individual approaches to texts (such as Augustine and Pelagius on Romans, or Gandhi on the Sermon on the Mount). Several chapters examine historical moments, such as the 1860 debate over Genesis and evolution, while others look to wider themes such as non-violence or millenarianism. Further chapters study in detail the works of popular figures who have used the Bible to provide inspiration for their creativity, from Dante and Handel, to Bob Dylan and Dan Brown.
an important, valuable contribution to its subject
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One
Genesis
Job
Psalms
Isaiah
Ezekiel
Daniel
Judges
Gospel of John
Romans
Corinthians
Galatians
Revelation
Part Two
Hermeneutical and Historical Issues
The Bible and Iconography
Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Interpretation in Translations of the Bible
Memory, Imagination, and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Middle Ages
Bible and Millenarianism
Non Retaliation and Military Force
The Bible and Anti-Semitism
Dante and the Bible
George Friedric Handel and the Messiah
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Women's Bible
Uchimura and the Bible in Japan
One Bible, Two Preachers: Patchwork Sermons and Sacred Art in the American South
Bob Dylan's Bible
From John's Gospel to Dan Brown: The Magdalene Code
Hebrew Bible
Gnostic Interpretations of Genesis
Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Huxley, and Genesis
Sodomy and Gendered Love: Reading Genesis 19 in the Anglican Communion
Exodus in Early Twentieth Century America: Charles Reynolds Brown and Lawrence Langner
The Use of Exodus by the Africaanas and Liberation Theologians
Elihu's Spiritual Sensation: William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job
Ezekiel 1 and the Nation of Islam
Post-Holocaust Jewish Interpretations of Job
Seventh Day Adventists, Daniel, and Revelation
Esther and Hitler: A Second Triumphant Purim
New Testament
Kierkegaard on the Lilies and the Birds: Matthew 6
Ghandi's Interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount
Preaching, Politics, and Paul in Contemporary African American Christianity
Ruskin, the Bible, and the Death of Rose La Touche
Karl Barth on Romans
Augustine and Pelagius on the Epistle to the Romans
Luther on Galatians
Joanna Southcott: Enacting the Woman Clothed with the Sun
Bible Reading and/after Theory
