Full Description
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").
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
