Table of Contents

John Barton: Introduction
I. Old Testament
1: The Old Testament
2: The Old Testament and the new crisis of Biblical Authority
3: The Meaning of 'Mythology' in Relation to the Old Testament
4: Theophany and Anthropomorphism in the Old Testament
5: The Image of God in Genesis: Some Linguistic and Historical Considerations
6: The Image of God in the Book of Genesis: A Study in Terminology
7: The Symbolism of Names in the Old Testament
8: The Book of Job and its Modern Interpreters
9: Jewish Apocalyptic in Recent Scholarly Study
10: An Aspect of Salvation in the Old Testament
11: Review article of M. Brett, Biblical Criticism in Crisis?
12: Hebraic Psychology
13: Review of James L. Kugel, The Idea of Biblical Poetry
14: The Synchronic, the Diachronic, and the Historical: A Triangular Relationshipa
15: Some Semantic Notes on the Covenant
16: Was Everything that God Created really good?: A Question in the First Verse of the Bible
17: Reflections on the Covenant with Noah
18: A Puzzle in Deuteronomy
19: Mythical Monarch Unmasked? Mysterious Doings of Debir King of Eglon
20: Did Isaiah know about Hebrew 'Root Meanings'?
21: Thou art the Cherub': Ezekiel 28.14 and the Post-Ezekiel Understanding of Genesis 2-3
II. New Testament
22: Which Language did Jesus speak? Some Remarks of a Semitist
23: Words for Love in Biblical Greek
24: Abba isn't 'Daddy'
25: The Hebrew/Aramaic Background of 'Hypocrisy' in the Gospels
III. Methods and Implications
26: Allegory and Typology
27: The Literal, the Allegorical, and Modern Biblical Scholarship
28: Allegory and Historicism
29: Childs' Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture
30: Man and Nature: The Ecological Controversy and the Old Testament
31: Biblical Language and Exegesis: How far does Structuralism help us?
IV. Biblical Chronology
32: Why the World was created in 4004 BC: Archbishop Usser and Biblical Chronology
33: Biblical Chronology: Legend or Science?
34: Luther and Biblical Chronology
35: Review of W. Adler, Time Immemorial: Archaic History and its Sources in Christian Chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus
36: Pre-scientific Chronology: The Bible and the Origin of the World
V. Fundamentalism
37: Fundamentalism
38: Fundamentalism and Biblical Authority [Religious Fundamentalism]
39: The Fundamentalist Understanding of Scripture
40: The Problem of Fundamentalism Today
41: Fundamentalism' and Evangelical Scholarship
42: The Dynamics of Fundamentlalism
43: Foreword to Fundamentalism edited by Martyn Percy
VI. History of Scholarship
44: John Duncan
45: H. H. Rowley
46: Godfrey Rolles Driver
47: George Bradford Caird
48: Remembrances of 'Historical Criticism': Speiser's Genesis Commentary and its History of Reception
49: Wilhelm Vischer and Allegory
50: Friedrich Delitzsch
51: Morris Jastrow
52: Foreword to In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie
Index

Reviews

This second instalment in Bartons collection of essays by James Barr is an invaluable addition to any biblical scholars library
*Kurtis Peters, Biblical and Early Christian Studies*