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9780521691406

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521691406

  • ISBN10:

    0521691400

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-11-12
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, Second Edition provides in-depth data and analysis of the production and reception of the canonical writings of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and also of the apocryphal works produced by Jewish and Christian writers. Unique among single-volume introductions, this book focuses on the ever-changing social and cultural contexts in which the biblical authors and their original readers lived. The authors of the first edition were chosen for their internationally recognized expertise in their respective fields: the history and literature of Israel; postbiblical Judaism; biblical archaeology; and the origins and early literature of Christianity. In this second edition, all chapters have been updated and thoroughly revised,under the direction of a new volume editor, Bruce D. Chilton. More than 22 new maps, 90 new photographs and a full-color section help illustrate the book.

Table of Contents

The concept of God's people
Bibliographic essay
The Old Testament World
The world of the ancestors
The world of Israel's 'historians'
The world of Israel's prophets
The world of Israel's worship
The world of Israel's sages and poets
The world of apocalyptic
Bibliographical essay
Jewish Responses to Greco-Roman Culture
Preservation and adaptation: the encounter with Hellenism
Antiochus IV and the Maccabean Crisis
Roman invasion and Jewish response
Herod the Great
Herod's heirs
Roman rule in the first century C.E.
Mid-first-century crises
The Jewish world after the fall of Jerusalem
Bibliographical essay
The Formation of the Christian Community
Jesus and the covenant
Paul: the Jesus movement in the Roman world
Christianity responds to formative Judaism
Christianity responds to Roman culture and imperial policy
Diversity in the church
Attempts to unify faith and practice
Bibliographical essay
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