... research began more than 150 years ago, it was dependent on the Bible and biblical research. The dependence of archaeology on the biblical text is symbolized by the phrase ‘bible and spade’. The chapter argues that the disciplines of archaeology on the one hand and history and biblical studies on the other...

...The Great Bible, instigated by Thomas Cromwell, edited by Miles Coverdale, and supported by Henry VIII, has often been seen as a monument of reform and authority. This chapter explores the Bible’s materiality to reveal hesitation and tensions in its creation. Its layout and title page reveal...

... papacy patronage Republic of Letters Roman biblical scholarship confessional approach Holstenius Lucas religious orders Septuagint Bellarmine Robert Cardinal Bible biblical scholarship Lucas of Bruges Franciscus Moretus Balthasar I Plantin Christophe Vulgate Arias Montano Benito...

...0 22 08 2024 This chapter emphasises the transnationalism of 16th-century book producers. A milestone in the development of the modern nation state with its ‘national language’ was the publication of an official vernacular Bible. In England this was Henry VIII’s ‘Great Bible’ of 1539...

... relevant to the occasion. The lectures, on aspects of the study of antiquity in its relationship to the Bible, were established by a gift from Constance Schweich (later Mrs Goetze) in memory of her late father, Leopold Schweich. The first chapter of this book brings together biographical information...

... Wright Thomas Alexandria Bede Bible books of the Constantinople Egypt Mediterranean Rome Italy Augustine of Hippo St George St Vulcano Italy Ascension Jacob’s Well Mary Virgin Crucifixion Resurrection The Hague Isidore of Seville Gregory I pope Pliny Bible versions of the Christian...

... Catholic Church creation dignity elderly God imago Dei imprisonment Islam Judaism ontology Soskice Janet Martin the unborn Dante Kirkpatrick Robin natural love Newman John Henry salvation animals Aristotle Bible life Locke John Macintyre Alasdair Newton Isaac teleology death...

... suspicion by authorities of a popular brand of Calvinism. It was not ultimately Cranmer’s Latin translation of the Bible that English and Scottish Protestants shared, but a common edition of the Bible produced by the English exile congregation in Geneva. Gaelic translations of the Geneva Bible intended...

...There exists today a wide spectrum of views concerning the process of the writing and redaction of the various parts of the Hebrew Bible, as well as the evaluation of the biblical text in reconstructing the history of Israel during the Iron Age. An archaeologist must make a choice between divergent...

...The historical approach to the Bible with explicit reference to the social sciences (including sociology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, economics, social psychology, and political science) became popular among biblical scholars and archaeologists during the 1970s, often induced by social...

...Chapter 1 provides a word history of ‘libertin’ from Antiquity through to the early seventeenth century. It demonstrates how two central connotations of libertinage – freedom and an opposition to Church teachings – have their origins in Roman law and the Bible respectively. A further theme...

... secularist critiques. Britain Jacobs L Judaism Torah min Hashamayim Katz J Torah Liebman C secularism Church of England The Bible Brown C Davie G Moses Maimonides Talmudic texts Williams B Brodie I United States Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhr Richard Protestantism Robinson J Shoah Tillich p...

...This chapter begins with a short exploration into a century when nearly no Bibles were produced in England. It then moves to explore the first Bible printed in England in 1535, against the background of its more famous contemporary, the Coverdale Bible. The first printed Bible is unusual Latin book...

...0 29 02 2024 This chapter examines religious study aids that focused on the individual words of Scripture, paying particular attention to Bible concordances and dictionaries. It shows that writers in the 1640s and 1650s reflected actively on the methodological implications of doing theology...

...0 04 07 2024 This chapter addresses how biblical editors read and edited the glosses of other bibles in creating their own, arguing for a more mutualistic understanding of the relationships between early modern bibles. It begins with a contextual discussion of the Bishops’ Bible glosses...

...James Barr (1924–2006), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a biblical scholar, Semitist, and theologian, who combined these three skills with exceptional brilliance. He was among the foremost biblical specialists of his generation, and for his depth of insight into the study of the Bible he...

...0 04 07 2024 This chapter discusses the ways in which organisational paratexts sought to shape reading practices. It begins where most readerly encounters with the Bible began: the headings at the top of the page. ‘Headings’ designate the collection of information found at the top...

... writers as well as the types of individual glosses that were regularly incorporated by multiple authors. Finally, the chapter reassesses the now dominant claim that the Geneva Bible notes did not perceptibly shape the theology of its readers; it argues instead that the Tomson notes were highly influential...

... but also to bring that history and the biblical narrative into the kind of critical engagement that will lead to a better understanding of the Bible itself. Israelite history White Hayden Bible Halpern B Israel kingdom Judah kingdom West Bank survey Williamson H G M minimalism Zionism David...