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* * * * ALEC GILMORE
A Dictionary of the English Bible and its Origins. Biblical Seminar 67.
Paperback only. Price: 9.95 pounds stlg or 15.95 US dollars.
ISBN 1 84127 068 7
This Dictionary is designed to increase awareness of Bible origins,
introduce readers to the variety of versions and manuscripts that lie
behind the familiar, provide 'student notes' on texts, versions,
manuscripts, persons, places and terminology, covering the origins of
Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the English Bible, including recent
translations, in alphabetical order; and generally to facilitate a more
intelligent understanding of the Bible among lay people by removing some of
the mystique and prejudices associated with it. Entries are factual, not
evaluative, and reflect contemporary biblical scholarship. A handy
reference tool for anyone at all interested in the Bible.
* * * * ATHALYA BRENNER AND CAROLE R. FONTAINE (eds)
The Song of Songs: A Feminist Companion to the Bible (Second Series)
Feminist Companion to the Bible 2, no. 6. Paperback only. Price: 16.95
pounds stlg or 28.50 US dollars
ISBN 1 84127 052 0
The ten essays in this volume, the majority specially written, engage with
questions of voice (whose?) and interplay (what kind?) between received
interpretation and resisting female reader, and ventures into
methodological territory familiar and unfamiliar to biblical scholars,
including autobiographical criticism. Among earlier readers invoked in
these pages are Jerome, Rashi and Fray Luis de Leon, who brush pages with
Haitian prostitutes. The three sections of this fresh, colourful and
adventurous journey into love, sex, allegory and self inside the Most
Sublime Song are: Feminist Appropriations; Specific Readings: Allegories
and Feminists; and The Song of Songs Personalized.
* * * * CRAIG A EVANS (ed)
The Interpretation of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity: Studies
in Language and Tradition JSP Supplements, 33 Studies in Scripture in
Early Judaism and Christianity 7. Price: 58.00 pounds stlg (29.00 pounds
stlg) or 90.00 US dollars (45.00 US dollars)
ISBN 1 84127 076 8
A collection of important studies examining the role of language in meaning
and interpretation. The various contributions investigate interpretation in
the versions, in intertestamental traditions, in the New Testament, and in
the rabbis and the targumim. The authors, including well-known veteran as
well as younger scholars, explore the differing ways in which the language
of Scripture stimulates the understanding of the sacred text in late
antiquity and gives rise to important theological themes.
This book is an important resource for any scholar interested in the
interpretation of Scripture in and just after the biblical period.
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