Bible and Interpretation: James Barr

Published: Mon, 21 Oct 2024

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Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr

Volume I: Interpretation and Theology

Foreword, John Barton
James Barr Remembered, Ernest Nicholson & John Barton
Introduction, John Barton
I. Biblical Interpretation and Biblical Theology
1:Does Biblical Study still belong to Theology?
2:Biblical Scholarship and the Unity of the Church
3:Historical Reading and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture
4:The Bible as a Document of Believing Communities
5:Some Thoughts on Narrative, Myth and Incarnation
6:Reading the Bible as Literature
7:Divine Action and Hebrew Wisdom
8:Biblical Scholarship and the Theory of Truth
9: Literality
10:Exegesis as a Theological Discipline Reconsidered, and the Shadow of the Jesus of History
11:Biblical Criticism as Theological Enlightenment
12:Jowett and the Reading of the Bible like any other book
13:The Bible as a Political Document
14:Revelation through History in the Old Testament and in Modern Theology
15:Semantics and Biblical Theology
16:Story and History in Biblical Theology
17:Biblical Theology
18:Biblical Theology and Revelation in History: Dictionary Definitions
19:Trends and Prospects in Biblical Theology
20:The Theological Case against Biblical Theology
21:Some Problems in the Search for a Pan-Biblical Theology
22:Predictions and Surprises: A Response to Walter Brueggemann’s Review
II. Authority of Scripture
23:Has the Bible any Authority?
24:Biblical Hermeneutics in Ecumenical Discussion
25:The Authority of Scripture
26:Scriptural Proof
27:The Authority of Scripture: The Book of Genesis and the Origin of Evil in Jewish and Christian Tradition
28:Review of William J. Abraham, Divine Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism
III. Judaism
29:Judaism: Its Continuity with the Bible
IV. Natural Theology
30:Biblical Faith and Natural Theology
31:Mowinckel, the Old Testament, and the Question of Natural Theology
32:Biblical Law and the Question of Natural Theology
33:Greek Culture and the Question of Natural Theology
34:Ancient Biblical Laws and Modern Human Rights
V. Environing Religions
35:Philo of Byblos and his ‘Phoenician History’
36:The Question of Religious Influence: The Case of Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity
37:The Language of Religion
Index

Volume II: Biblical Studies

Introduction, John Barton
I. Old Testament
1:The Old Testament
2: The Old Testament and the new crisis of Biblical Authority
3:The Meaning of ‘Mythology’ in Relation to the Old Testament
4:Theophany and Anthropomorphism in the Old Testament
5:The Image of God in Genesis: Some Linguistic and Historical Considerations
6:The Image of God in the Book of Genesis: A Study in Terminology
7:The Symbolism of Names in the Old Testament
8:The Book of Job and its Modern Interpreters
9:Jewish Apocalyptic in Recent Scholarly Study
10:An Aspect of Salvation in the Old Testament
11:Review article of M. Brett, Biblical Criticism in Crisis?
12:Hebraic Psychology
13:Review of James L. Kugel, The Idea of Biblical Poetry
14:The Synchronic, the Diachronic, and the Historical: A Triangular Relationshipa
15:Some Semantic Notes on the Covenant
16:Was Everything that God Created really good?: A Question in the First Verse of the Bible
17:Reflections on the Covenant with Noah
18:A Puzzle in Deuteronomy
19:Mythical Monarch Unmasked? Mysterious Doings of Debir King of Eglon
20:Did Isaiah know about Hebrew ‘Root Meanings’?
21:Thou art the Cherub’: Ezekiel 28.14 and the Post-Ezekiel Understanding of Genesis 2-3
II. New Testament
22:Which Language did Jesus speak? Some Remarks of a Semitist
23:Words for Love in Biblical Greek
24:Abba isn’t ‘Daddy’
25:The Hebrew/Aramaic Background of ‘Hypocrisy’ in the Gospels
III. Methods and Implications
26:Allegory and Typology
27:The Literal, the Allegorical, and Modern Biblical Scholarship
28:Allegory and Historicism
29:Childs’ Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture
30:Man and Nature: The Ecological Controversy and the Old Testament
31:Biblical Language and Exegesis: How far does Structuralism help us?
IV. Biblical Chronology
32:Why the World was created in 4004 BC: Archbishop Usser and Biblical Chronology
33:Biblical Chronology: Legend or Science?
34:Luther and Biblical Chronology
35:Review of W. Adler, Time Immemorial: Archaic History and its Sources in Christian Chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus
36:Pre-scientific Chronology: The Bible and the Origin of the World
V. Fundamentalism
37:Fundamentalism
38:Fundamentalism and Biblical Authority [Religious Fundamentalism]
39:The Fundamentalist Understanding of Scripture
40:The Problem of Fundamentalism Today
41:Fundamentalism’ and Evangelical Scholarship
42:The Dynamics of Fundamentlalism
43:Foreword to Fundamentalism edited by Martyn Percy
VI. History of Scholarship
44:John Duncan
45:H. H. Rowley
46:Godfrey Rolles Driver
47:George Bradford Caird
48:Remembrances of ‘Historical Criticism’: Speiser’s Genesis Commentary and its History of Reception
49:Wilhelm Vischer and Allegory
50:Friedrich Delitzsch
51:Morris Jastrow
52:Foreword to In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie
Index

Volume III: Linguistics and Translation

Introduction, John Barton
I. Ancient Translations
1:Vocalization and the Analysis of Hebrew among the Ancient Translators
2:Three Interrelated Factors in the Semantic Study of Ancient Hebrew
3:Guessing’ in the Septuagint
4:Doubts about Homeophony in the Septuagint
5:Did the Greek Pentateuch really serve as a Dictionary for the Translation of the Later Books?
6:Seeing the Wood for the Trees? An Enigmatic Ancient Translation
7:erizw and ereidw in the Septuagint: A Note principally on Gen. xlix.6
8:Aramaic-Greek Notes on the Book of Enoch
9:The Meaning of epakouw and Cognates in the LXX
10:Review article of J. Reider, An Index to Aquila
11:Review of P. Walters (Katz), The Text of the Septuagint
12:Review article of Bruce H. Metzger (ed.), The Early Versions of the New Testament
13:Translators’ Handling of Verb Tense in Semantically Ambiguous Contexts
14:Cr)b - MOLIS; Prov. xi.31, 1 Peter iv.18
II. Modern Translations
15:Biblical Translation and the Church
16:After Five Years: A Retrospect on Two Major Translations of the Bible
17:Modern English Bible Versions as a Problem for the Church
III. Hebrew and Semitic Languages
18:Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Hellenistic Age
19:Hebrew Linguistic Literature: From the 16th Century to the Present
20:The Nature of Linguistic Evidence in the Text of the Bible
21:Reading a Script without Vowels
22:Semitic Philology and the Interpretation of the Old Testament
23:The Ancient Semitic Languages: The Conflict between Philology and Linguistics
24:Common Sense and Biblical Language
25:Etymology and the Old Testament
26:Limitations of Etymology as a Lexicographical Instrument in Biblical Hebrew
27:A New Look at Kethibh-Qere
28:Determination and the Definite Article in Biblical Hebrew
29:St Jerome s Appreciation of Hebrew
30:St Jerome and the Sounds of Hebrew
31:Migrash in the Old Testament
32:Ugaritic and Hebrew sbm?
33:One Man or All Humanity? A Question in the Anthropology of Genesis 1
34:Some Notes on ben ‘between’ in classical Hebrew
35:Hebrew d( especially at Job i.18 and Neh. vii.3
36:Why?’ in biblical Hebrew?
37:Is Hebrew Cq ‘nest’ a Metaphor?
38:Hebrew Orthography and the Book of Job
39:Three Interrelated Factors in the Semantic Study of Ancient Hebrew
40:Scope and Problems in the Semantics of Classical Hebrew
41:Hebrew Lexicography
42:Hebrew Lexicography: Informal Thoughts
43:Philology and Exegesis: Some general Remarks, with Illustrations from Job iii
44:Review of J. Yahuda, Hebrew is Greek
45:Review articles on Koehler-Baumgartner, Hebraisches und Aramäisches Lexikon zum Alten Testament, parts 1 and 2
46:Review article on E Ullendorff, Is Biblical Hebrew a Language?
47:Review of J. Blau, Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
Index