Preface

1. Scripture and Story

Phyllis Trible - A Daughter’s Death: Feminism, Literary Criticism, and the Bible

John Dominic Crossan - The Hermeneutical Jesus

2. Scripture and Canon

David Noel Freedman - The Earliest Bible

Jacob Neusner - Accommodating Mishnah to Scripture in Judaism: The Uneasy Union and Its Offspring

Arnold Band - The Politics of Scripture: The Hasidic Tale

3. Scripture and Church

Aidan Kavanagh - Scripture and Worship in Synagogue and Church

C. H. Sisson - The Prayer Book Controversy: An Insular View

Clayton Libolt - Protestantism and Preaching

4. Scripture and Intellectual History

James R. Moore - Interpreting the New Creationism

Herbert B. Huffmon - Babel und Bibel: The Encounter Between Babylon and the Bible

5. The Study of Scripture

Francis I. Andersen - On Reading Genesis 1-3

Michael Patrick O’Connor - Ugarit and the Bible

The Biblical Presence in Modern Art

6. The Setting of Scripture

Carol Meyers - The Israelite Empire: In Defense of King Solomon

J. Louis Martyn - A Law-Observant Mission to Gentiles: The Background of Galatians

7. Israelite Worldviews

Katharine Doob Sakenfeld - Loyalty and Love: The Language of Human Interconnections in the Hebrew Bible

Tikva Frymer-Kensky - Biblical Cosmology

Baruch A. Levine - The Language of Holiness: Perceptions of the Sacred in the Hebrew Bible

8. Apocalyptic Worldviews

John J. Collins - The Apocalyptic Context of Christian Origins

Bernard McGinn - Symbols of the Apocalypse in Medieval Culture

9. The Binding of Isaac

Edna Amir Coffin - The Binding of Isaac in Modern Israeli Literature

David Lehman - Fantasia on Kierkegaard and ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’

10. The Passion of Jesus

Diane Kirkpatrick - Religious Photography in the Victorian Age

David Blamires - The Use of the Bible in The Roman Quarry of David Jones

General Index

Index of Texts

Index of Hebrew Words

The range of essays is broad and challening. Reviewer W Bodine Bibliotheca Sacra