The Bible: An Introduction - Softcover

Sumney, Jerry L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451469241 ISBN 13: 9781451469240

Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S., 2014

Synopsis

What is the Bible? How did it get to us? Why are translations so different? And what influence has the Bible had on culture? From its very first pages, The Bible: An Introduction offers clear answers to the most basic questions that first-time students and curious inquirers bring to the Bible. Without presuming either prior knowledge of the Bible or a particular attitude toward it, Jerry L. Sumney uses straightforward language to lead the reader on an exploration of the Bible's contents and the history of its writings, showing how critical methods help readers understand what they find in the Bible. This second edition offers revised chapters and auxiliary material and new discussions of biblical studies methods and the question of inspiration. Neither polemical nor apologetic, The Bible presents the biblical writings as the efforts of men and women in the past to understand their lives and their world in light of the ways they understood the divine.

About this title

About the Author

Jerry L. Sumney is professor of biblical studies at Lexington Theological Seminary. He is the author of Colossians: A Commentary (2008) and Identifying Paul"s Opponents (1990).He is also the editor of Reading Romans (2012) and the coeditor of Theology and Ethics in Paul and His Interpreters (1996) and Paul and Pathos (2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451469241
• ISBN 13: 9781451469240
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464