The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Genesis2 - Job3 - Psalms4 - Isaiah5 - Ezekiel6 - Daniel7 - Judges8 - Gospel of John9 - Romans10 - Corinthians11 - Galatians12 - Revelation13 - The Bible and Iconography14 - Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Interpretation in Translations of the Bible15 - Memory, Imagination, and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Middle Ages16 - Bible and Millenarianism17 - Non Retaliation and Military Force18 - The Bible and Anti-Semitism19 - Dante and the Bible20 - George Friedric Handel and the Messiah21 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Women's Bible22 - Uchimura and the Bible in Japan23 - One Bible, Two Preachers: Patchwork Sermons and Sacred Art in the American South24 - Bob Dylan's Bible25 - From John's Gospel to Dan Brown: The Magdalene Code26 - Gnostic Interpretations of Genesis27 - Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Huxley, and Genesis28 - Sodomy and Gendered Love: Reading Genesis 19 in the Anglican Communion29 - Exodus in Early Twentieth Century America: Charles Reynolds Brown and Lawrence Langner30 - The Use of Exodus by the Africaanas and Liberation Theologians31 - Elihu's Spiritual Sensation: William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job32 - Ezekiel 1 and the Nation of Islam33 - Post-Holocaust Jewish Interpretations of Job34 - Seventh Day Adventists, Daniel, and Revelation35 - Esther and Hitler: A Second Triumphant Purim36 - Kierkegaard on the Lilies and the Birds: Matthew 637 - Ghandi's Interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount38 - Preaching, Politics, and Paul in Contemporary African American Christianity39 - Ruskin, the Bible, and the Death of Rose La Touche40 - Karl Barth on Romans41 - Augustine and Pelagius on the Epistle to the Romans42 - Luther on Galatians43 - Joanna Southcott: Enacting the Woman Clothed with the Sun44 - Bible Reading and/after Theory

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199204540
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 252 x 46.5 x 181 mm Ø 1452 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 15 in-text black and white figures
• Pagine Arabe: 742