An introduction to the Bible
Subtitle: sacred texts and imperial contexts
By: David M. Carr and Colleen M. Conway.
Contributors: Conway, Colleen M.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405167383; 9781405167376
Subjects: Bible -- History; Bible -- History of contemporary events; Bible -- Introductions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Orientation to multiple bibles and multiple translations; title: Studying the Bible in its ancient context(s); title: The emergence of ancient Israel and its first oral traditions; title: Echoes of empire in monarchal Israel; title: Narrative and prophecy amidst the rise and fall of the Northern Kingdom; title: Torah and other texts written in the wake of the Assyrian Empire; title: Bible for exiles : promise and story in the neo-Babylonian Empire; title: Persian Empire and the emergence of a temple-centered Jewish community; title: Hellenistic empires and the formation of the Hebrew Bible; title: Studying the New Testament in its ancient context; title: Paul and his Letters in the Roman colonial context; title: Mark's story of Jesus in the midst of Toman retribution; title: The Gospel of Matthew : defining community in the wake of destruction; title: Negotiating the empire in Luke-Acts; title: Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles : turning inward as a strategy for life in the empire; title: Variations on responses to empire in other New Testament writings; title: Epilogue: The final formation of the Jewish and Christian bibles.