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The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (Hardcover)
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In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly
important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical
studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of
biblical texts, reception history focuses on exploring the history
of interpretation. In doing so it locates the dominant
historical-critical scholarly paradigm within the history of
interpretation, rather than over and above it. At the same time,
the breadth of material and hermeneutical issues that reception
history engages with questions any narrow understanding of the
history of the Bible and its effects on faith communities.
The challenge that reception history faces is to explore tradition
without either reducing its meaning to what faith communities think
is important, or merely offering anthologies of interesting
historical interpretations. This major new handbook addresses these
matters by presenting reception history as an enterprise (not a
method) that questions and understands tradition afresh.
The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible
consciously allows for the interplay of the traditional and the new
through a two-part structure. Part I comprises a set of essays
surveying the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical
books that have been influential in the history of interpretation.
Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the
interpretation of particular key biblical passages or books with
due regard for the specificity of their social, cultural or
aesthetic context.
These case studies span two millennia of interpretation by readers
with widely differing perspectives. Some are at the level of a
group response (from Gnostic readings of Genesis, to Post-Holocaust
Jewish interpretations of Job); others examine individual
approaches to texts (such as Augustine and Pelagius on Romans, or
Gandhi on the Sermon on the Mount). Several chapters examine
historical moments, such as the 1860 debate over Genesis and
evolution, while others look to wider themes such as non-violence
or millenarianism. Further chapters study in detail the works of
popular figures who have used the Bible to provide inspiration for
their creativity, from Dante and Handel, to Bob Dylan and Dan
Brown.
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