The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Paperback/Michael D. Coogan - Oxford University Press, USA

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In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the Biblical world, the World in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible. and co-editor of the Oxford Companion to the Bible , is currently director of publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum and Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts..
Coogan , editor of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3rd ed.
About the Author: Michael D.
Broad, authoritative, and engaging, The Oxford History of the Biblical World will illuminate for any reader the ancient World from which the Bible emerged.
Understanding the Biblical World is a vital part of understanding the Bible.
The authors also examine such issues as the roles of women, the tensions between urban and rural settings, royal and kinship social structures, and official and popular religions of the region.
The Oxford History of the Biblical World incorporates the best of this scholarship, and in chronologically ordered chapters presents the reader with a readable and integrated study of the history, art, architecture, languages, literatures, and religion of Biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity in their larger cultural contexts.
Using new approaches, contemporary scholars have begun to synthesize this material with the Biblical traditions.
For more than a century, archaeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world.
In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the Biblical world, the World in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible