Biblical Studies

The 30 chapters are organized into four parts based on various key themes. Part I, Revealing the Past, considers the Bible's journey through time from the Ancient World to modern times. Part II, The Nomadic Text, traces the global appropriations of the Bible. Part III, The Bible and the Senses, looks at some aesthetic and performative renderings of the Bible. Part IV, Reading in Practice, looks at disparate applications and practices of scripture in the modern world.

This book, a guide to the present state of biblical studies intended for students and non specialist readers, covers methods and approaches currently practiced in the academic study of the Bible, as well as examining the major categories of books in the Bible from the perspective of recent scholarship.

"This Companion to the Bible seeks to provide basic knowledge of the cultural contexts in which the biblical books were produced, including the history, languages, and religious beliefs and philosophical insights of the writers, the people they wrote about, and the audiences for whom they wrote." -- From the Introduction by Howard Clark Kee.

The first of a set in process of being published, this volume examines the development and use of the Bible from late Antiquity to the Reformation, tracing both its geographical and its intellectual journeys from its homelands throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean and into northern Europe.

This resource provides information about the people, places, events, books, institutions, religious belief, and secular influence of the Bible. It offers offers informatiove entries and extensive interpretive essays on topics such as the influence of the Bible on music or law. The contributors also explore biblical views of modern issues such as homosexuality, marriage, and anti-Semitism, and the impact of the Bible on the secular world (including a four-part article on the Bible's influence on literature).

This resource offers an authoritative a survey of original research in biblical studies. The forty-five articles have been written by leading international figures in the discipline, who give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates in this highly technical and diverse field.