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Chantilly, Virginia : Teaching Company, c2006. Lectures by Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University. OCLC Number: 76970694. 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook (iv, 128 pages, 22 cm). English.
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DVD / Front Desk
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159803250X / 9781598032505
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Description: In The Story of the Bible, renowned scholar Luke Timothy Johnson can illuminate for you the remarkable and complicated process by which this great book came into being. Tracing the development of biblical texts across millennia, Professor Johnson takes you on a journey from the farthest reaches of ancient history through antiquity and the Middle Ages up to the present. You'll learn about the many forms the Bible has taken and the ways history, scholarship, and technology have helped shape this great tradition, as well as the Bible's powerful influence on human history and culture.
Our journey takes us inside medieval monasteries where scribal monks copied scripture into beautifully illuminated manuscripts. We'll venture into the caves of Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls lay hidden for hundreds of years and examine how the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem forever changed the way the Jews read their sacred texts.
Throughout this enthralling story, you'll develop a deep appreciation for the tremendous power of this astonishing bookâone that has endured through centuries and touched the lives of countless millions.
Contents: Lecture 1. Telling the story of a book -- lecture 2. Making TaNaK -- lecture 3. Forms of Jewish scripture -- lecture 4. Birth of the Christian Bible -- lecture 5. Formation of Jewish and Christian canons -- lecture 6. Writing and copying manuscripts -- lecture 7. Imperial sponsorship and the Bible -- lecture 8. Texts and translations--the ancient east -- lecture 9. Old Latin and the Vulgate -- lecture 10. Other ancient versions -- lecture 11. Monasteries and manuscripts -- lecture 12. Interpretation within Judaism. -- Lecture 13. Interpretation in medieval Christianity -- lecture 14. The Renaissance, printing, and the Bible -- lecture 15. The Protestant Reformation and the Bible -- lecture 16. Translating the Bible into modern languages -- lecture 17. The first efforts at Englishing the Bible -- lecture 18. The King James version -- lecture 19. The romance of manuscripts -- lecture 20. Searching for the critical text -- lecture 21. The historical-critical approach -- lecture 22. The Bible in contemporary Judaism -- lecture 23. Contemporary Christians and their Bibles -- lecture 24. The Bible's story continues.
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Our journey takes us inside medieval monasteries where scribal monks copied scripture into beautifully illuminated manuscripts. We'll venture into the caves of Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls lay hidden for hundreds of years and examine how the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem forever changed the way the Jews read their sacred texts.
Throughout this enthralling story, you'll develop a deep appreciation for the tremendous power of this astonishing bookâone that has endured through centuries and touched the lives of countless millions.
Contents: Lecture 1. Telling the story of a book -- lecture 2. Making TaNaK -- lecture 3. Forms of Jewish scripture -- lecture 4. Birth of the Christian Bible -- lecture 5. Formation of Jewish and Christian canons -- lecture 6. Writing and copying manuscripts -- lecture 7. Imperial sponsorship and the Bible -- lecture 8. Texts and translations--the ancient east -- lecture 9. Old Latin and the Vulgate -- lecture 10. Other ancient versions -- lecture 11. Monasteries and manuscripts -- lecture 12. Interpretation within Judaism. -- Lecture 13. Interpretation in medieval Christianity -- lecture 14. The Renaissance, printing, and the Bible -- lecture 15. The Protestant Reformation and the Bible -- lecture 16. Translating the Bible into modern languages -- lecture 17. The first efforts at Englishing the Bible -- lecture 18. The King James version -- lecture 19. The romance of manuscripts -- lecture 20. Searching for the critical text -- lecture 21. The historical-critical approach -- lecture 22. The Bible in contemporary Judaism -- lecture 23. Contemporary Christians and their Bibles -- lecture 24. The Bible's story continues.
FY2015 / jvsn
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Discover the story of the world's most consistently best-selling book, which came into being through a remarkable and complicated process. In 24 stimulating lectures, Professor Johnson investigates the many forms the Bible has taken and the ways history, scholarship, and technology have helped
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shape this great tradition, as well as the Bible's powerful influence on human history and culture. The Bible has long served as a powerful force, both reflecting and shaping the cultures that have read and embraced it. Over the centuries, perceptions of the Bible have inspired men and women and shaped nations; they've sent nations to war and martyrs to their deaths. The struggle of translation has been a battleground for controlling the meaning of sacred text, a struggle that reached its peak during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. From the early history of the New Testament, when Hebrew and Greek sources built a new story on the foundation of the ancient Jewish tradition, to the world-changing invention of the printing press, a revolutionary innovation that contributed to the Protestant Reformation, this enthralling story gives you a deep appreciation for the tremendous power of this astonishing book - one that has endured through centuries and touched the lives of countless millions. Show Less
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Since the invention of the printing press, the world's consistently bestselling book has been the Bible. Since 1815, it has been printed an estimated five billion times. And yet, what do many of us know about this ancient and influential text? Compiled over centuries, the Bible is considered to be both a divinely inspired message and the work of human authors. Throughout its history, it has grown from a collection of stories and teachings shared through oral tradition to a founding text for three of the world's great religions. It has been copied and recopied into countless manuscripts, pronounced from the pulpit, studied in universities and synagogues, and read in private. Translated and distributed all over the world, it bears the mark of the many cultures that have debated its meaning and prized its wisdom.… (more)
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Johnson provides a good overview of the development of the Jewish and Christian bibles, providing good scholarship about the various manuscripts, the lack of original sources, disputes over the best texts, the many translations and the difficulty of translation, and many of the personalities
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involved. As a Roman Catholic, his perspective may have aspects that Protestants, especially fundamental ones (or atheists for that matter) may take exception to, but overall, he does a good job of presenting an unbiased history of the bible's development. He is also blunt about the King James Bible: it is a great work of literature, but not the best translation, since it relied on later manuscripts (several centuries older than the earliest manuscripts.) If you are interested in the story of Christianity, I certainly recommend this course. It provides a slightly different shading perhaps, but it mainly reinforces other courses and books, such as John Barton's history of the bible or Diarmaid McCulloch's history of Christianity. Johnson is a smooth, superior lecturer. Show Less