| ISBN |
0195128532 (pbk.) |
| Name |
Gabel, John B. (John Butler) |
| Title |
The Bible as literature : an introduction / John B. Gabel, Charles B. Wheeler, Anthony D. York. |
| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Published |
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. |
| Description |
xii, 357 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1996. |
| Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. The Bible as Literature -- II. Literary Forms and Strategies in the Bible -- III. Ancient Near Eastern Literature and the Bible -- IV. The Bible and History -- V. The Physical Setting of the Bible -- VI. The Formation of the Canon -- VII. The Composition of the Pentateuch -- VIII. The Prophetic Writings -- IX. The Wisdom Literature -- X. The Apocalyptic Literature -- XI. Judaism in the Intertestamental Period -- XII. The Hellenistic Background of the New Testament -- XIII. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: The Outside Books -- XIV. The Gospels -- XV. Acts and the Letters -- XVI. The Text of the Bible -- XVII. Translating the Bible -- XVIII. The Religious Use and Interpretation of the Bible -- App. I. The Name of Israel's God -- App. II. Writing in Biblical Times -- App. III. Palestine in the Intertestamental Period. |
| Summary |
"The latest revision of this comprehensive and systematic text approaches the Bible from a literary/historical perspective and studies it as a body of writing produced by real people who intended to convey messages to real audiences. Avoiding assessments of the Bible's truth or authority, the authors maintain a rigorously objective tone as they discuss such major issues as the forms and strategies of biblical writing, its actual historical and physical settings, the process of canon formation, the sources of the Pentateuch, and the nature of such biblical genres as prophecy, apocalypse, and gospel."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subjects |
Bible as literature |
| Other Names |
Wheeler, Charles B. (Charles Bickersteth) |
| York, Anthony D. (Anthony Delano) |
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