At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own sacred traditions and their own civil discourses. As part of this effort, African American intellectuals offered interpretations of the Bible which were radically different and often fundamentally oppositional to those of many of their white counterparts. By imagining a freedom unconstrained, their work charted a broader and, perhaps, a more genuinely American identity. In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation. Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically, from the antebellum period and the Civil War through to the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Obama era, to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time and to analyze its effect in transforming black social reality. For African American thinkers such as Absalom Jones, David Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances E. W. Harper, Adam Clayton Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the exodus story became the language-world through which freedom both in its sacred resonance and its civil formation found expression. This tradition, Marbury argues, has much to teach us in a world where fundamentalisms have become synonymous with "authentic" religious expression and American identity. For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open and oriented toward freedom.

Reception history has emerged over the last decades as a rapidly growing domain of research, entertaining a notable methodological diversity. Authoritative Texts and Reception History samples that diversity, offering a collection of essay that discuss various reception-historical issues, from a plurality of perspectives, across several fields: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, early and late-antique Christianity. While furthering specific discussions in their specific fields, the contributions included here-authored by both established and emerging scholars-illustrate just how wide the umbrella of 'reception history' can be, and the varied range of topics, concerns and approaches it can accommodate.

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The New International Version is renowned for its combination of accuracy and clarity of language. It is the world's most popular Bible translation in modern English. Royalties from all sales of the NIV Bible help Biblica in their work of translating and distributing Bibles around the world.

This elegant NIV pocket edition Bible has an eye catching gold zip, perfect for taking with you everywhere and reading the Word in style!

This Bible includes:

• Clear, readable 6.75pt British text
• Zip to protect pages when you are on the go
• Durable water-resistant cover
• Ribbon marker
• Gold foil cover embellishment

The New International Version is renowned for its combination of accuracy and clarity of language. It is the world's most popular Bible translation in modern English. Royalties from all sales of the NIV Bible help Biblica in their work of translating and distributing Bibles around the world.

This elegant NIV pocket edition Bible has an eye catching gold zip, perfect for taking with you everywhere and reading the Word in style!

This Bible includes:

• Clear, readable 6.75pt British text
• Zip to protect pages when you are on the go
• Durable water-resistant cover
• Ribbon marker
• Gold foil cover embellishment

The New International Version is renowned for its combination of accuracy and clarity of language. It is the world's most popular Bible translation in modern English. Royalties from all sales of the NIV Bible help Biblica in their work of translating and distributing Bibles around the world.

Kids will love the unique variety of activities that help them apply the Bible to their lives. The NIrV Seek and Explore Holy Bible helps children understand God's Word by using common ways that kids learn. Children are joined on their journey through the Bible by nine different animal friends who help them comprehend more about Scripture. Throughout the pages, the fun animal characters suggest activities like writing lists, creating art, and even playing games - that each help kids apply biblical principles to their lives. There are also hundreds of study helps throughout that explain select Bible verses to the reader. This Bible includes the complete New International Reader's Version (NIrV) which is written at a third-grade reading level and based on the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV). The NIrV is perfect for children learning to read and explore the Bible for the first time on their own. Features include: Full-color throughout Single-column text to help early readers Study helps to help explain the text Activities to help the child apply the Bible to their life 4 child-friendly Bible maps Presentation page Complete text of the easy-to-read New International Reader's Version (NIrV) of the Bible 8.5-point font size

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James Barr is a widely recognized name in biblical studies, even if he is still best known for his The Semantics of Biblical Language. Barr's Semantics, although first published in 1961, still generates animated discussion of its claims. However, over his lengthy career Barr published significant scholarship on a wide variety of topics within Old Testament studies and beyond. This volume provides an assessment of Barr's contribution to biblical studies sixty years after the publication of his first and still memorable volume on biblical semantics. As a result, this volume includes essays on major topics such as the Hebrew language, lexical semantics, lexicography, the Septuagint, and biblical theology.