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Author : Hans von Campenhausen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Formation of the Christian Bible written by Hans von Campenhausen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Martin McDonald
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598568388
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Formation of the Bible: the Story of the Church's Canon written by Lee Martin McDonald and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known for his scholarly works on the formation of the biblical canon, Lee McDonald has written a carefully researched and reasoned explanation on the history of the formation of the Bible expressly for the interested pastor and curious layman. Combining a lifelong commitment to the Scriptures, both as a pastor and as a scholar, McDonald approaches his task with sensitivity to the importance of these sacred texts as well as with the thoughtful practice of a person steeped in the process by which these texts were brought together to form the Bible as the church knows it now. From the collection (and translations) of the Hebrew Scriptures through the collection of the New Testament Scriptures, and finally the process of settling on the final forms for these collections, McDonald leads his reader right up to the present moment.
Author : James Orr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia written by James Orr and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Barton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143111205
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book A History of the Bible written by John Barton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy Scripture," a non-negotiable authority straight from God, has prevailed in Western society for some time. And while it provides a firm foundation for centuries of Christian teaching, it denies the depth, variety, and richness of this fascinating text. In A History of the Bible, John Barton argues that the Bible is not a prescription to a complete, fixed religious system, but rather a product of a long and intriguing process, which has inspired Judaism and Christianity, but still does not describe the whole of either religion. Barton shows how the Bible is indeed an important source of religious insight for Jews and Christians alike, yet argues that it must be read in its historical context--from its beginnings in myth and folklore to its many interpretations throughout the centuries. It is a book full of narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems, and letters, each with their own character and origin stories. Barton explains how and by whom these disparate pieces were written, how they were canonized (and which ones weren't), and how they were assembled, disseminated, and interpreted around the world--and, importantly, to what effect. Ultimately, A History of the Bible argues that a thorough understanding of the history and context of its writing encourages religious communities to move away from the Bible's literal wording--which is impossible to determine--and focus instead on the broader meanings of scripture.
Author : Lee Martin McDonald
Publisher : Hendrickson Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781565630529
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon written by Lee Martin McDonald and published by Hendrickson Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lee McDonald has written a lucid and accessible account of the formation of the Christian Bible, clearly marshalling the major evidence, working through the main problems, and reaching persuasive conclusions. Treating separately the canons of the Old and New Testaments, he provides translations of most of the ancient primary sources, good summaries of scholarly debates, and a useful guide to the extensive scholarly literature on the subject. This book will find an appreciative readership among students, pastors, and inquiring laypersons." " Harry Gamble, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, University of Virginia "This is a remarkable book in that it tackles the question of the formation of the Christian biblical canon in its full sense, that is, both testaments. . . . McDonald has produced a timely study, considerably improved in the sections of the OT canon and generally more comprehensive for both testaments than in his first edition, that should command wide attention for years to come. He has, in my opinion, come to the right conclusions on the essential questions." " James A. Sanders, Professor of Biblical and Intertestamental Studies, School of Theology at Claremont
Author : Konrad Schmid
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248384
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Bible written by Konrad Schmid and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative new account of the BibleÕs origins, illuminating the 1,600-year tradition that shaped the Christian and Jewish holy books as millions know them today. The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories, as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular assumptions about IsraelÕs past, suggesting, for instance, that the five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schrter reveal the long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show, did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schrter argue that Judaism may not have survived had it not been reshaped in competition with early Christianity. A remarkable synthesis of the latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet told of the worldÕs best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets.
Author : Craig A. Evans
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781585588145
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Origins of the Bible (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology) written by Craig A. Evans and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Bible we have come to be? What do biblical scholars mean when they talk about canon, the Septuagint, the Apocrypha, or the Masoretic Text? All this biblical study is interesting, but does it really matter? Leading international scholars explain that it does. This thought-provoking and cutting-edge collection will help you go deeper in your understanding of the biblical writings, how those writings became canonical Scripture, and why canon matters. Beginning with an explanation of the different versions of the Hebrew Bible, scholars in different areas of expertise explore the complexities and issues related to the Old and New Testament canons, why different Jewish and Christian communities have different collections, and the importance of canon to theology.
Author : Frances M. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521581532
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture written by Frances M. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges standard accounts of early Christian exegesis of the Bible. Professor Young sets the interpretation of the Bible in the context of the Graeco-Roman world - the dissemination of books and learning, the way texts were received and read, the function of literature in shaping not only a culture but a moral universe. For the earliest Christians, the adoption of the Jewish scriptures constituted a supersessionary claim in relation to Hellenism as well as Judaism. Yet the debt owed to the practice of exegesis in the grammatical and rhetorical schools is of overriding significance. Methods were philological and deductive, and the usual analysis according to 'literal', 'typological' and 'allegorical' is inadequate to describe questions of reference and issues of religious language. The biblical texts shaped a 'totalizing discourse' which by the fifth century was giving identity, morality and meaning to a new Christian culture.
Author : Tracy M. Sumner
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1634091620
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book How Did We Get the Bible? written by Tracy M. Sumner and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will gain even more appreciation for their Bible when they see how God directed its development, from the original authors through today’s translations. How Did We Get the Bible? provides an easy-to-read historical overview, covering the Holy Spirit’s inspiration of the writers, the preservation of the documents, the compilation of the canon, and the efforts to bring the Bible to people in their own language. This fascinating story, populated by intriguing characters, will encourage readers with God’s faithfulness—to His own Word, and to those of us who read it. It’s a fantastic, value-priced resource for individuals and ministries!
Author : Lee Martin McDonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567139328
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book The Origin of the Bible: A Guide For the Perplexed written by Lee Martin McDonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself, piecing together interviews, impressions of time and place, cultural criticism, and a thorough exploration of the music itself. The approach focuses as much on the reception and response that Dummy engendered as it does on the original production of the album. How is that so many people have, collectively, made a quintessential headphone album into a nightclub album? How have they made the product of a niche local scene into an international success? This is the story of how an innovative, experimental album became the iconic sound for the better part of a decade; and an aesthetic template for the experience of music in the digital age.
Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164106
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book From Jesus to Christ written by Paula Fredriksen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Author : David L. Dungan
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451406122
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Constantine's Bible written by David L. Dungan and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. David Dungan re-examines the primary source for the history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, in the light of Hellenistic political thought. He reaches new conclusions: that we usually use the term "canon" incorrectly; that the legal imposition of a "canon" or "rule" upon scripture was a fourth- and fifth-century phenomenon enforced with the power of the Roman imperial government; that the forces shaping the New Testament canon are much earlier than the second-century crisis occasioned by Marcion, and that they are political forces. Dungan discusses how the scripture selection process worked, book-by-book, as he examines the criteria used-and not used-to make these decisions. He describes the consequences of the emperor Constantine's tremendous achievement in transforming orthodox, Catholic Christianity into imperial Christianity. --From publisher's description.
Author : Lee Martin McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780567668790
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The Formation of the Biblical Canon written by Lee Martin McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lee Martin McDonald provides a magisterial overview of the development of the biblical canon -- the emergence of the list of individual texts that constitutes the Christian bible. In these two volumes -- in sum more than double the length of his previous works on this subject -- McDonald presents his most in-depth overview to date. McDonald shows students and researchers how the list of texts that constitute 'the bible' was once far more fluid than it is today and guides readers through the minefield of different texts, different versions, and the different lists of texts considered 'canonical' that abounded in antiquity. Questions of the origin and transmission of texts are introduced as well as consideration of innovations in the presentation of texts, collections of documents, archaeological finds and Church councils. In the first volume McDonald reexamines issues of canon formation once considered settled, and sets the range of texts that make up the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) in their broader context. Each individual text is discussed, as are the cultural, political and historical situations surrounding them. The second volume considers the New Testament, and the range of so-called 'apocryphal' gospels that were written in early centuries, and used by many Christian groups before the canon was closed. Comprehensive appendices showing various canon lists for both Old and New Testaments and for the bible as as a whole are also included" --
Author : Ronald E. Heine
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801027772
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church written by Ronald E. Heine and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role played by the Old Testament in the formation of early Christian thinking.
Author : Lee Martin McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780567669339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)
Download or read book The Formation of the Biblical Canon written by Lee Martin McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1. Part 1. Introductions and definitions. Introduction -- The notation and use of scripture -- The notion, use, and adaptability of canon -- Part 2. Formation of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament canon. The Hebrew scriptures -- The law, the prophets, and the cessation of prophecy -- Greek influence and the formation of the Hebrew Bible -- Scripture among Essenes, Sadducees, Pharisees, and Samaritans -- Emerging Jewish and Christian collections of scriptures -- The scriptures of Jesus and early Christianity -- Texts reflecting an emerging biblical canon -- Scripture in the rabbinic tradition (90-550 CE) -- Ancient artifacts and the stabilization of the Jewish scriptures -- The formation of the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament : a summary.
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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857861018
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author : Richard Elliott Friedman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061951293
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Bible with Sources Revealed written by Richard Elliott Friedman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the World's Foremost Bible Experts Offers a Groundbreaking Presentation of the Five Books of Moses In The Bible with Sources Revealed, Richard Elliott Friedman offers a new, visual presentation of the Five Books of Moses -- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy -- unlocking the complex and fascinating tapestry of their origins. Different colors and type styles allow readers to easily identify each of the distinct sources, showcasing Friedman's highly acclaimed and dynamic translation. NOTE: This book is meant to be experienced in color and the eBook is not compatible with black and white devices.
