Faith, text, and history : the Bible in English / David Lawton
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1990. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #388956
ISBN: 081391325X
Physical description; 203 pp.; 24 cm. Contents; 1. Introduction -- Words and books -- The languages of God -- 2. Biblical interpretation -- Origen and The Book -- Modes of interpretation since the Reformation -- 3. The Bible in English -- Translation and interpretation -- Style and transparency in English Bible translation -- 4. Narrative structures in the Old Testament -- Narrative structures in Genesis -- Narrative as discourse: The Book of Ruth and the Book of Job -- 5. A gospel of signs -- Belief and interpretation -- The life and death of Jesus -- Concealment and competence -- 6. Metaphor, text and belief -- Difficulty and transference in the Song of Songs -- Apocalypse and closure. Subjects; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. New Testament. Bible Hermeneutics. New Testament Hermeneutics. Translating.
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