Backgrounds for the Bible
Edited by Michael Patrick O'Connor and David Noel Freedman
A number of the essays in this volume were originally published as a part of a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review entitled “The Bible and Its Traditions.” Added to these articles are new contributions by F. I. Andersen (“On Reading Genesis 1–3”), David Blamires (“The Use of the Bible in The Roman Quarry of David Jones”), Tikva Frymer-Kensky (“Biblical Cosmology”), and Baruch Levine (“The Language of Holiness: Perceptions of the Sacred in the Hebrew Bible”).
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- Table of Contents
Preface
1. Scripture and Story
Phyllis Trible - A Daughter’s Death: Feminism, Literary Criticism, and the Bible
John Dominic Crossan - The Hermeneutical Jesus
2. Scripture and Canon
David Noel Freedman - The Earliest Bible
Jacob Neusner - Accommodating Mishnah to Scripture in Judaism: The Uneasy Union and Its Offspring
Arnold Band - The Politics of Scripture: The Hasidic Tale
3. Scripture and Church
Aidan Kavanagh - Scripture and Worship in Synagogue and Church
C. H. Sisson - The Prayer Book Controversy: An Insular View
Clayton Libolt - Protestantism and Preaching
4. Scripture and Intellectual History
James R. Moore - Interpreting the New Creationism
Herbert B. Huffmon - Babel und Bibel: The Encounter Between Babylon and the Bible
5. The Study of Scripture
Francis I. Andersen - On Reading Genesis 1-3
Michael Patrick O’Connor - Ugarit and the Bible
The Biblical Presence in Modern Art
6. The Setting of Scripture
Carol Meyers - The Israelite Empire: In Defense of King Solomon
J. Louis Martyn - A Law-Observant Mission to Gentiles: The Background of Galatians
7. Israelite Worldviews
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld - Loyalty and Love: The Language of Human Interconnections in the Hebrew Bible
Tikva Frymer-Kensky - Biblical Cosmology
Baruch A. Levine - The Language of Holiness: Perceptions of the Sacred in the Hebrew Bible
8. Apocalyptic Worldviews
John J. Collins - The Apocalyptic Context of Christian Origins
Bernard McGinn - Symbols of the Apocalypse in Medieval Culture
9. The Binding of Isaac
Edna Amir Coffin - The Binding of Isaac in Modern Israeli Literature
David Lehman - Fantasia on Kierkegaard and ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’
10. The Passion of Jesus
Diane Kirkpatrick - Religious Photography in the Victorian Age
David Blamires - The Use of the Bible in The Roman Quarry of David Jones
General Index
Index of Texts
Index of Hebrew Words
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