The Decalogue and its Cultural Influence
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The 21 papers in this volume offer the richest and most wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of studies on the reception of the Decalogue in culture, and will prove to be a fundamental resource for students of the biblical text and of the reception of the Bible in general.
Reception history is one of the most inviting, yet also one of the most difficult, fields in the study of the Bible today. It is difficult because it involves so many layers of expertise. The reception-historian does not only need a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the biblical text itself, but also familiarity with the cultures and intellectual background of the many diverse ages in which it has been read and appropriated; and in addition needs to be versed in media other than writing, including the visual and performing arts.
But it is inviting because it carries its practitioners so far beyond the confines of ordinary textual study, with its concern for language and text, and out into an ocean of interdisciplinary engagement with writings that have, after all, stimulated the imaginations as well as the intellects of generations of religious (and non-religious) readers. The Decalogue is an obvious candidate for a reception-historical treatment. It has acquired over the centuries an enormous weight of commentary, and has been assimilated into the most varied cultures. Though a text, it has often also been an icon, appearing on walls in churches and now even in American courthouses. The subject was ripe for study, and the conference at which the papers in this book were delivered marked a significant milestone in biblical reception history’ (from John Barton’s Preface to the volume).
The 21 papers in this volume offer the richest and most wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of studies on the reception of the Decalogue in culture, and will prove to be a fundamental resource for students of the biblical text and of the reception of the Bible in general.
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| Table of Contents | John Barton Dominik Markl PART ONE: ANTIQUITY – BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS AND EARLY DEVELOPMENTS 1. Dominik Markl 2. Innocent Himbaza 3. J. Cornelis de Vos 4. Hermut Löhr PART TWO: MIDDLE AGES – LITURGY, HOMILY AND THEOLOGY 5. Miguel Lluch Baixauli 6. Ruth Langer 7. Aaron J Kleist 8. Ralph Lee 9. Randall B. Smith PART THREE: WORLDWIDE DISSEMINATION IN EARLY MODERN CATECHISMS AND CATECHESIS 10. Ian Green 11. Jonathan Willis 12. Hans-Jürgen Fraas 13. James F. Keenan 14. Luis Resines 15. Veronika Thum PART FOUR: INTERPRETATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES 16. Christopher Rowland 17. Luciane Beduschi 18. Gerhard Lauer 19. David J.A. Clines 20. Lloyd Baugh 21. Steven Wilf |
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