MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01953nam a22002778a 4500
001 2009041255
003 DLC
005 20091007191910.0
008 091005s2010 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009041255
020 $a9781405167383 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781405167376 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aBS445$b.C35 2010
082 00 $a221.09$222
100 1 $aCarr, David McLain,$d1961-
245 13 $aAn introduction to the Bible :$bsacred texts and imperial contexts /$cDavid M. Carr and Colleen M. Conway.
260 $aMalden, MA :$bWiley-Blackwell,$c2010.
263 $a1002
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: Orientation to multiple bibles and multiple translations -- Studying the Bible in its ancient context(s) -- The emergence of ancient Israel and its first oral traditions -- Echoes of empire in monarchal Israel -- Narrative and prophecy amidst the rise and fall of the Northern Kingdom -- Torah and other texts written in the wake of the Assyrian Empire -- Bible for exiles : promise and story in the neo-Babylonian Empire -- Persian Empire and the emergence of a temple-centered Jewish community -- Hellenistic empires and the formation of the Hebrew Bible -- Studying the New Testament in its ancient context -- Paul and his Letters in the Roman colonial context -- Mark's story of Jesus in the midst of Toman retribution -- The Gospel of Matthew : defining community in the wake of destruction -- Negotiating the empire in Luke-Acts -- Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles : turning inward as a strategy for life in the empire -- Variations on responses to empire in other New Testament writings -- Epilogue: The final formation of the Jewish and Christian bibles.
630 00 $aBible$xHistory.
630 00 $aBible$xHistory of contemporary events.
630 00 $aBible$vIntroductions.
700 1 $aConway, Colleen M.