The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation.
Contributions from leading scholars in the field present wide-ranging views not just of biblical materials and their literary and linguistic context, but also of the social institutions, history and archaeology, and religious concepts. New chapters cover topics such as the priesthood and festivals, creation and covenant, ethics, and family life, while a new section on biblical interpretation discusses Jewish and Christian bible translation and key thematic emphases, and modern reader-response and cultural approaches.
This revised edition of The Biblical World offers an up-to-date and thorough survey of the Bible and its world, and will continue to be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament and their history and interpretation, as well as anyone working on the societies, religions, and political and cultural institutions that created and influenced these texts.
A comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation.
Introduction
1. The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
2. The Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha
3. The Dead Sea Scrolls
4. The New Testament
5. Early
Christian Apocrypha
6. Law
7. Historiography
8. Prophecy
9. Wisdom
10.
Apocalypticism
11. The Jewish/Hellenistic novel
12. The Gospels and Acts
13.
Letters in the New Testament in the Greco-Roman world
14. Cuneiform myths and
epics in the Ancient Near East
15. The Hebrew and Aramaic languages
16. The
Greek language
17. Text and versions: the Old Testament
18. Text and
versions: the New Testament
19. Hebrew inscriptions
20. The Cairo Genizah
21.
Greek and Roman inscriptions: Jewish inscriptions
22. Christian inscriptions
in a (post-)biblical world
23. Biblical archaeology
24. Palestine during the
Bronze Age
25. Palestine during the Iron Age
26. Israels ancestors: the
patriarchs and matriarchs
27. Israel at the time of the united monarchy:
David and Solomon
28. Exile, migration, and diaspora after the fall of
Jerusalem in the sixth century BCE
29. Israel under Persia and Greece
30.
Judaea under Roman rule: 63 BCE135 CE
31. Israels neighbours
32. Religion
in Israel: pre-exile and in exile
33. Warfare
34. Priesthood and festivals
35. The Arts: representational (architecture, artefacts), performative
(music, drama), literary (poetry, psalmody) 36: Family and everyday life
37.
Judaism at the turn of the era
38. The first churches: social life
39. The
first churches: religious practices
4. Creation and covenant
41. Salvation in
Jewish thought
42. Salvation in Christian thought
43. Ethics
44. New
Testament christology: interpretations of the identity and role of Jesus
45.
Interpretations of the identity and role of Paul
46. Death and afterlife
47.
Purity and sacrifice
48. Jewish Bible translations
49. Jewish Bible
interpretation
50. Christian Bible translation
51. Early Christian biblical
interpretation
52. Modern biblical interpretation
53. Reader-response
criticism and recent readers
54. The Bible in contemporary culture and society
Katharine J. Dell is Reader in Old Testament Literature and Theology at the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, UK, and Fellow of St Catharine's College. She has written extensively on the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament including The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context (2008), Interpreting Ecclesiastes: Readers Old and New (2013), and The Solomonic Corpus of 'Wisdom' and its Influence (2020); and has also written introductory textbooks including, Who Needs the Old Testament?: Its Enduring Appeal and Why the New Atheists Don't Get It (2017).
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