Sawyer The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-24113-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 564 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Religion

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture providesreaders with a concise, readable and scholarly introduction totwenty-first century approaches to the Bible.
* Consists of 30 articles written by distinguished specialistsfrom around the world
* Draws on interdisciplinary and international examples toexplore how the Bible has impacted on all the major social contextswhere it has been influential - ancient, medieval and modern,world-wide
* Gives examples of how the Bible has influenced literature, art,music, history, religious studies, politics, ecology andsociology
* Each article is accompanied by a comprehensivebibliography
* Offers guidance on how to read the Bible and its manyinterpretations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sawyer, John F. A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii
List of Figures xiii
Preface to the Paperback Edition xv
Introduction 1
John F. A. Sawyer
Part I Revealing the Past 9
1 The Ancient World 11
Philip R. Davies
2 The Patristic Period 28
Kate Cooper
3 The Middle Ages 39
Mary Dove
4 The Renaissance 54
Ilona N. Rashkow
5 The Reformation 69
Peter Matheson
6 The Counter-Reformation 85
Euan Cameron
7 The Modern World 104
John W. Rogerson
Part II The Nomadic Text 117
8 Judaism 119
Edward Kessler
9 Islam 135
Stephen N. Lambden
10 Asia 158
Choan-Seng Song
11 Africa 176
Jonathan A. Draper
12 North America 198
Scott M. Langston
13 Latin America 217
Erhard S. Gerstenberger
14 Australasia 232
Roland Boer and Ibrahim Abraham
Part III The Bible and the Senses 251
15 Literature 253
Jo Carruthers
16 Film 268
Alice Bach
17 Music 286
John W. Rogerson
18 Art 299
Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons
19 Architecture 323
Andrew Ballantyne
20 The Theatre 338
Meg Twycross
21 The Circus 365
Burke O. Long
22 The Body 381
Gerard Loughlin
Part IV Reading in Practice 397
23 Contextuality 399
Gerald West
24 Politics 414
Tim Gorringe
25 Ecology 432
Anne Primavesi
26 Psychology 447
Ilona N. Rashkow
27 Gender 464
Deborah F. Sawyer
28 Nationalism 480
Jo Carruthers
29 Post-colonialism 497
Sharon A. Bong
30 Postmodernism 515
Andrew Tate
Index of Biblical References 534
General Index 546

Über Autor(innen)

John F. A. Sawyer is Emeritus Professor of ReligiousStudies at Newcastle University and of Biblical and Jewish Studiesat Lancaster. Among his many publications are Sacred Textsand Sacred Meanings (2011), A Concise Dictionary of theBible and its Reception (2009), and The Fifth Gospel.Isaiah in the History of Christianity (1996). He is co-editorof the Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion (withJ. M. Y. Simpson, 2001), and series editor (with ChristopherRowland, Judith Kovacs and David Gunn) of thereception-history-based Blackwell Bible Commentary Series.