The story of the Bible / Luke Timothy Johnson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Great Courses | The great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2006.Description: 2 v. ; 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 J67s 2006
Contents:
Part 1. Telling the story of a book -- Making TaNaK -- Forms of Jewish scripture -- Birth of the Christian Bible -- Formation of Jewish and Christian canons -- Writing and copying manuscripts -- Imperial sponsorship and the Bible -- Texts and translations: the ancient east -- Old Latin and the Vulgate -- Other ancient versions -- Monasteries and manuscripts -- Interpretation within Judaism --
Part 2. Interpretation in medieval Christianity -- The Renaissance, printing, and the Bible -- The Protestant Reformation and the Bible -- Translating the Bible into modern languages -- The first efforts at Englishing the Bible -- The King James Version -- The romance of manuscripts -- Searching for the critical text -- The historical-critical approach -- The Bible in contemporary Judaism -- Contemporary Christians and their Bibles -- The Bible's story continues.
Lectures by Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University.
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Course No. 6252
Lecture transcript and course guidebook.

Bibliographical references.

Part 1. Telling the story of a book -- Making TaNaK -- Forms of Jewish scripture -- Birth of the Christian Bible -- Formation of Jewish and Christian canons -- Writing and copying manuscripts -- Imperial sponsorship and the Bible -- Texts and translations: the ancient east -- Old Latin and the Vulgate -- Other ancient versions -- Monasteries and manuscripts -- Interpretation within Judaism --

Part 2. Interpretation in medieval Christianity -- The Renaissance, printing, and the Bible -- The Protestant Reformation and the Bible -- Translating the Bible into modern languages -- The first efforts at Englishing the Bible -- The King James Version -- The romance of manuscripts -- Searching for the critical text -- The historical-critical approach -- The Bible in contemporary Judaism -- Contemporary Christians and their Bibles -- The Bible's story continues.

Lectures by Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University.

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