TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carr, David M
TI  - An Introduction to the Bible:  Sacred Texts and Imperial Contexts
SN  - 9781405167376
U1  - B59 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Blackwell Publishig
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; prologue: orientation to multiple bibles and multiple translations ......1  1 Studying the bible in its Ancient context(s) .....15  2 The emergence of ancient israel and its first oral traditions .....33  3 Echoes of empire in monarchal israel ......53  4 Narrative and prophecy amidest the rise and fall of the northern kingdom .....85  5 Torah and other texts written in the wake of the assyrian empire .....119  6 Bible for exile: Promise and story in the neo-babylonian empire ......147  7 Persian empire and the emergence of a temple-centered jewish community ......181  8 Hellenistic empires and the formation of the hebrew bible .....205  9 Studying the new testament in its ancient context .....221  10 Paul and his letters in the roman colonial context ......241  11 Mark`s story of jesus in the midst of roman retribution ......269  12 The gospel of Matthew: Defining community in the wake of destruction .....289  13  Negotiating the empire in luke-acts .....307  14 The gospel of john and the johannine epistles: Turning inward as a strategy for life in the empire  .....327  15 Variations on responses to empire in other new testament writings .....345
ER  -