Understanding The Bible - Brossura

Harris, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0072965487 ISBN 13: 9780072965483

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

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This best-selling nonsectarian guide is designed for students undertaking their first systematic study of the Bible. It is the only single-volume introductory textbook that places each book of the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and the New Testament fully in its historical and cultural context. Understanding the Bible acquaints readers with the content as well as the major themes of each biblical book, and familiarizes them with the goals and methods of important scholarship.

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L'autore:

Stephen L. Harris is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Religious Studies at California State University, Sacramento, where he served ten years as department chair. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. A member of the Society of Biblical Literature, his publications include Understanding the Bible (8th edition, 2011); The Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (with Robert Platzner); Classical Mythology: Images and Insights (with Gloria Platzner); Exploring the Bible; and Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes, a survey of volcanic hazards on the U.S. Pacific Coast; and for National Geographic Books, Restless Earth, a study of global earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. He contributed the chapter on Archaeology and Volcanism to the Encyclopedia of Volcanoes (Academic Press, 2000).

Contenuti:

Chapter 1 – The Bible: An Overview

Chapter 2 – The Process of Formation: How the Bible Came to Be Written, Transmitted, Canonized, and Translated

Part One – The Hebrew Bible: Tanak, or Old Testament

Photo Essay - Mesopotamia: Fountainhead of Biblical Tradition

Chapter 3 – The Ancient Near East: The Environment that Produced the Bible
Chapter 4 – The God of Israel: An Evolving Portrait
Chapter 5 – The Torah: Five Books of Divine Teaching
Photo Essay - Archaeology of the Bible

Chapter 6 – The Prophets (Nevi'im) I: The Story of Israel: From Promised Land to Exile
Chapter 7 – The Prophets (Nevi'im) II: Individual Spokespersons for God
Photo Essay - Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon

Chapter 8 – The Writings (Kethuvim): Books of Poetry, Wisdom, Short Fiction, Apocalyptic Visions, and Sacred History
Chapter 9 – Books of the Second Canon: The Apocrypha
Chapter 10 – Between the Two Testaments: Greek Culture and the Growth of Multiple Judaisms
Part II – The New Testament
Photo Essay - Archaeological Sites and Artifacts Associated with Jesus' Life

Chapter 11 – Books of the New Testament: An Overview
Chapter 12 – The Gospels: Four Portraits of Jesus
Photo Essay - Diverse Portraits of Jesus

Chapter 13 – The Continuing Quest for the Historical Jesus
Chapter 14 – An Account of Christian Origins and the Pauline Letters
Photo Essay - Paul and His World

Chapter 15 – General Letters and a Vision of End Time
Chapter 16 – Interpreting the Judeo-Christian Bible in a Changed World
Glossary
Index