The third of three volumes of James Barr's collected essays. This volumes includes Barr's extensive papers on linguistic matters relating to Biblical Hebrew and Greek, and on biblical translation in the ancient and the modern world.
The second of three volumes of James Barr's collected essays. This volumes focuses on biblical interpretation and the history of the discipline. It also contains material on biblical fundamentalism.
The first of three volumes of James Barr's collected essays. Begins with a biographical essay and contains major articles on theology in relation to the Bible, programmatic studies of the past and future of biblical study, and reflections on specific topics in the study of the Old Testament.
The landmark general reference Bible (with over 150,000 copies sold) that offers the full text of the New Revised Standard Version. Completely revised and updated, this new edition includes revised introductions and notes, and new diagrams, charts and maps––25% revised or new material. More Praise for the HarperCollins Study Bible: •"I ... can speak with unbounded praise for this work. Th…
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon; of the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; Arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, of sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture w…
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Addresses the debate over the trustworthiness of Bible translations which has troubled the church for centuries.
Stanley Porter and Mark Boda here bring together a group of internationally respected scholars to provide an up-to-date assessment of New Testament translation in terms of textual criticism, translation theory, and theology. / Each of the three sections includes theoretical essays on the interface of a given area with particular issues in translation, followed by applications of the theory to a…
Outlines the historical development of biblical translation, including analyses of over fifty versions of the Bible.