The Bible as cultural heritage /
The Bible as cultural heritage /
edited by Wim Beuken and Sean Freyne.
- London : Maryknoll : SCM Press ; Orbis Books, c1995.
- x, 132 p. ; 22 cm.
- Concilium ; 1995/1 .
- Concilium (Glen Rock, N.J.) ; 1995/1. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Editorial: The Bible as cultural heritage / Wim Beuken, Sean Freyne -- I. From world to scroll: the Bible and its cultures. 'From the midst of the nations' : the Bible as gateway to ancient Near Eastern cultures / Othmar Keel -- Jews and Greeks : the Diaspora as an experience of cultural diversification / Jacques van Ruiten -- 'Telling in their own tongues' : old and modern Bible translations as expressions of ethnic cultural identity / Willard G. Oxtoby -- 'Neither Jew nor Greek' : the challenge of building one multicultural religious community / John K. Riches. II. From scroll to world: the Bible and the making of culture. The Bible in arts and literature : source of inspiration for poets and painters / David Jasper -- The Bible and the discovery of the world : mission, colonization and foreign development / Arnulf Camps. III. From scroll to book of life: the Bible as source of human values. New ways of reading the Bible in the cultural settings of the New World / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- The Bible as magna carta of movements for liberation and human rights / George M. Soares-Prabhu -- The Bible and the preservation of the world / Norman Solomon -- 'Behold I make all things new' : the final statement of the fourth plenary assembly of the Catholic Biblical Federation / Teresa Okure. Special column: The active participation of the church of Zaire in building a responsible nation / Emery Kabongo Kanundowi.
0334030307 (UK) 0883448823 (USA)
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Bible--Influence.
Bible--Use.
Religion and culture.
IN PROCESS (UTILITY LOAD)
Includes bibliographical references.
Editorial: The Bible as cultural heritage / Wim Beuken, Sean Freyne -- I. From world to scroll: the Bible and its cultures. 'From the midst of the nations' : the Bible as gateway to ancient Near Eastern cultures / Othmar Keel -- Jews and Greeks : the Diaspora as an experience of cultural diversification / Jacques van Ruiten -- 'Telling in their own tongues' : old and modern Bible translations as expressions of ethnic cultural identity / Willard G. Oxtoby -- 'Neither Jew nor Greek' : the challenge of building one multicultural religious community / John K. Riches. II. From scroll to world: the Bible and the making of culture. The Bible in arts and literature : source of inspiration for poets and painters / David Jasper -- The Bible and the discovery of the world : mission, colonization and foreign development / Arnulf Camps. III. From scroll to book of life: the Bible as source of human values. New ways of reading the Bible in the cultural settings of the New World / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- The Bible as magna carta of movements for liberation and human rights / George M. Soares-Prabhu -- The Bible and the preservation of the world / Norman Solomon -- 'Behold I make all things new' : the final statement of the fourth plenary assembly of the Catholic Biblical Federation / Teresa Okure. Special column: The active participation of the church of Zaire in building a responsible nation / Emery Kabongo Kanundowi.
0334030307 (UK) 0883448823 (USA)
96185863
Bible--Influence.
Bible--Use.
Religion and culture.
IN PROCESS (UTILITY LOAD)