num_pages: 672
description: Here in one impressively illustrated volume leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world the world in which prophets poets sages and historians created one of our most important texts - the Bible.For more than a century archeologists have been unearthing the tombs temples texts and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. Using new approaches contemporary scholars have constructed a fresh synthesis of this material with the biblical traditions. The Oxford History of the Biblical World incorporates the best of this scholarship and in chronologically ordered chapters presents a readable and integrated study of the history art architecture languages literatures and religion of biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity in their larger cultural contexts. The authors also examine such issues as the roles of women the tensions between urban and rural settings royal and kinship social structures and official and popular religions of the region. Readers will find that 200 photographs line drawings and maps as well as an insert containing 25 color images vividly illustrate the history discussed.Understanding the biblical world is a vital part of understanding the Bible. Broad authoritative and visually engaging The Oxford History of the Biblical World will illuminate for any reader the ancient world from which the Bible emerged.
language: English
title: The Oxford History of the Biblical World
publisher: Oxford University Press, USA