Presidential voices : the Society of Biblical Literature in the twentieth century
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Presidential voices : the Society of Biblical Literature in the twentieth century
（Society of Biblical Literature : biblical scholarship in North America, no. 22）
Brill, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- The historical element in the New Testament (1895) / J. Henry Thayer
- Present tasks of American biblical scholarship (1919) / James A. Montgomery
- Our own future : a forecast and a programme (1923) / Max L. Margolis
- Motives of biblical scholarship (1936) / Henry J. Cadbury
- The ancient Near East and the religion of Israel (1939) / William F. Albright
- The society of biblical literature and exegesis (1941) / Julian Morgenstern
- The future of biblical studies (1945) / Morton Scott Enslin
- Scholars, theologians, and ancient rhetoric (1955) / Amos N. Wilder
- The dead sea discoveries : retrospect and challenge (1956) / J. Philip Hyatt
- Parallelomania (1956) / Samuel Sandmel
- Form criticism and beyond (1968) / James Muilenburg
- Whither biblical research? (1970) / Harry M. Orlinsky
- A reconstruction of the Judean restoration (1974) / Frank Moore Cross
- The watershed of the American biblical tradition : the Chicago school, first phase, 1892-1920 (1975) / Robert W. Funk
- Other sheep not of this fold : the Johannine perspective on Christian diversity in the late first century (1977) / Raymond E. Brown
- The Bible as a classic and the Bible as Holy Scripture (1983) / Krister Stendahl
- The ethics of biblical interpretation : decentering biblical scholarship (1987) / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
- The eighth, the greatest of centuries? (1988) / Philip J. King
- At the mercy of Babylon : a subversive rereading of the empire (1990) / Walter Brueggemann
- Jesus the victim (1991) / Helmut Koester
- Social class as an analytic and hermeneutical category in biblical studies (1992) / Norman K. Gottwald
- Antiquity and Christianity (1997) / Hans Dieter Betz
- Catholic or Catholic? : biblical scholarship at the center (2005) / Carolyn Osiek
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Since late in the nineteenth century, a nearly constant element in the program for the annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature (and Exegesis) has been the lecture delivered by the president whose term concludes with that meeting. These presidential addresses have not only provided defining moments for biblical studies as a practice and a profession but also, read together, reveal the growth and development that the Society has experienced since its founding in 1880. The addresses included in this volume, for example, show how a dominant focus on interpreting biblical texts "historically" gave way to a greater appreciation of those texts as literature to an increased recognition of the role the interpreter plays in shaping the "meaning" of any text. One also observes in this documentary history the shift from parochialism to a more inclusive view of biblical studies, a change in focus from narrow theological concerns to broader social concerns, and the gradual erosion of positivistic assumptions about the objectivity of the interpretive process. The twenty-three presidential addresses collected here thus give readers direct access to some of the key moments and broader trends within the history of the SBL.
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