Bibliographical details:
Clines, D. J. A. (2005). The Bible and the Modern World. Corr. ed. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
Publisher’s information:
In the world of scholarship, the Bible is usually viewed as an ancient book, a product of the past, an inheritance, a heritage; it is essentially a book with origins. These lectures adopt an opposite starting point: that the Bible is in the modem world, a physical object strewn about the world of today, an in-print book that real people are reading at this very minute.
So the focus here is not on the origins of the Bible but on its reception, not on what its authors may have intended it to mean, but on what its readers today take it to mean. In conversational style, David Clines enquires after the Bible and the Academy, the Bible and Culture, the Bible and the Public, the Bible and the Church – and offers his own reflections and admonitions.
THIS IS A CORRECTED REPRINT OF THE 1997 EDITION.
David J. A. Clines is Professor of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, and a noted Old Testament scholar. He is the author of The Theme of the Pentateuch, Job 1–20, What Does Eve Do to Help? and Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament, and Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible, among others, and editor of The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew.
Table of contents:
Preface … 7
Chapter 1
The Bible and the Academy … 9
Chapter 2
The Bible and Culture … 32
Chapter 3
The Bible and the Public … 57
Chapter 4
The Bible and the Church … 82
Bibliography … 102
Index … 110
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