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The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity
investigates the various ways in which Orthodox Christian, i.e.,
Eastern and Oriental, communities, have received, shaped, and
interpreted the Christian Bible. The handbook is divided into five
parts: Text, Canon, Scripture within Tradition, Toward an Orthodox
Hermeneutics, and Looking to the Future. The first part focuses on
how the Orthodox Church has never codified the Septuagint or any
other textual witnesses as its authoritative text. Textual fluidity
and pluriformity, a characteristic of Orthodoxy, is demonstrated by
the various ancient and modern Bible translations into Syriac,
Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian among other languages. The second part
discusses how, unlike in the Protestant and Roman-Catholic faiths
where the canon of the Bible is "closed" and limited to 39 and 46
books, respectively, the Orthodox canon is "open-ended," consisting
of 39 canonical books and 10 or more anaginoskomena or "readable"
books as additions to Septuagint. The third part shows how, unlike
the classical Protestant view of sola scriptura and the Roman
Catholic way of placing Scripture and Tradition on par as sources
or means of divine revelation, the Orthodox view accords a central
role to Scripture within Tradition, with the latter conceived not
as a deposit of faith but rather as the Church's life through
history. The final two parts survey "traditional" Orthodox
hermeneutics consisting mainly of patristic commentaries and
liturgical interpretations found in hymnography and iconography,
and the ways by which Orthodox biblical scholars balance these
traditional hermeneutics with modern historical-critical approaches
to the Bible.
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