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The Bible: A Very Short Introduction (Second Edition)

[1] 书籍信息

John Riches, The Bible: A Very Short Introduction (Second Edition), Oxford University Press, January 2022.

[2] 作者简介

John Riches was the Chaplain and Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he taught philosophy of religion from 1968 to 1972. He then taught the New Testament at Glasgow University from 1973 to 2002, with periods as a visiting lecturer in theological colleges in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. Riches' major areas of study have been the Gospels and Paul, with a particular interest in the history of reception of the Bible.

[3] 内容简介

The Bible is one of the world's most read and most influential books. It has provided many rules for people to live by, and has shaped our language and our shared beliefs in ways that have both drawn communities together and fueled bitter disputes and conflicts. Having played a major role in the development of Western culture, the Bible continues to exert an enormous influence over millions of lives.

This Very Short Introduction explores the material, cultural, and religious history of the Bible. Looking first at how the books of the Bible came to be written down and collected as authoritative sacred texts, John Riches goes on to show how they were produced and distributed across the world, and how they have been read and interpreted by differing communities in different languages. Riches compares how Jewish and Christian communities have interpreted the same passage of the Bible, and looks at some of the strikingly varied readings a very short book like Galatians has received over 2,000 years. Finally, he explores post-colonial and feminist readings of the Bible, and concludes by surveying the uses of the Bible in art, music, poetry, and politics.

[4] 书籍目录

List of illustrations
1. The Bible in the modern world: classic or sacred text?
2. How the Biblical books were written
3. The making of the Bible
4. The translation, production and distribution of the Bible
5. Jewish and Christian readings of the binding of Isaac
6. Galatians through history
7. The Bible and its critics
8. The Bible in the post-colonial world
9. The Bible in politics
10. The Bible in high and popular culture
11. Conclusion
References
Further reading
Index of biblical references
General index

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