Presidential Voices: The Society of Biblical Literature in the Twentieth Century (Biblical Scholarship in North America) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004151230 ISBN 13: 9789004151239

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

About this title

About the Author:

Harold W. Attridge, Ph.D., is Dean of Yale University Divinity School and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament. He has published many scholarly contributions to New Testament exegesis and to the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the history of the early Church. He also has served as the president of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Review:

This volume is a fascinating selection of presidential addresses to the SBL, founded in 1880. Twenty-three of these addresses have been selected by Attridge and Vanderkam as particularly noteworthy performances of a president s technical sophistication or his (and, in two cases, her) general vision for the field. Worth the price of the volume is the appendix listing titles of all of the additional addresses not included here, most of which are available in the archives of JBL. These intriguing speeches clearly indicate our need for further analysis of the social and institutional history of academic biblical studies and her guild associations. No doubt many of our own professional conundrums - among them our relation to the general study of 'religion' the shifting valence of 'theology' and 'history,' and the distinctions between North American biblical scholarship and that of Europe and the UK (not to mention elsewhere) 0 will appear differently in light of such reflection. --Ward Blanton, Journal for the Study of the New Testament (30/5 [2008]: 134)

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9004151230
• ISBN 13: 9789004151239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Attridge Harold W, VanderKam James C