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Cambridge Companion to the Bible

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ISBN-10: 0521691400

ISBN-13: 9780521691406

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Bruce Chilton, Anthony J. Saldarini, Howard Clark Kee, Amy-Jill Levine, Eric M. Meyers

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'The Cambridge Companion to the Bible' is unique in that it provides, in a single volume, in-depth information about the changing historical, social and cultural contexts in which the biblical writers and their original readers lived.
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List price: $59.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 740
Size: 7.95" wide x 9.96" long x 1.57" tall
Weight: 4.686
Language: English

Robin Preiss Glasser has illustrated numerous children's books including America: A Patriotic Primer, A is for Abigail, and Our Fifty States by Lynne Cheney, Daddy's Girl by Garrison Keillor, Tea for Ruby by Sarah Ferguson, and the Fancy Nancy picture books by Jane O'Connor.Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Science in Nashville, Tennessee; affiliated professor at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations at Cambridge; and a self-described "Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a…    

The concept of God's people
Bibliographic essay
The Old Testament World
The world of the ancestors
The world of Israel's 'historians'
The world of Israel's prophets
The world of Israel's worship
The world of Israel's sages and poets
The world of apocalyptic
Bibliographical essay
Jewish Responses to Greco-Roman Culture
Preservation and adaptation: the encounter with Hellenism
Antiochus IV and the Maccabean Crisis
Roman invasion and Jewish response
Herod the Great
Herod's heirs
Roman rule in the first century C.E.
Mid-first-century crises
The Jewish world after the fall of Jerusalem
Bibliographical essay
The Formation of the Christian Community
Jesus and the covenant
Paul: the Jesus movement in the Roman world
Christianity responds to formative Judaism
Christianity responds to Roman culture and imperial policy
Diversity in the church
Attempts to unify faith and practice
Bibliographical essay