[The New Cambridge History of the Bible 01] • The New Cambridge History of the Bible · Volume 1, From the Beginnings to 600 · 1 by Paget, James Carleton -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half title page The New Cambridge History of The Bible Title page Copyright page Contents List of figures List of contributors Preface Abbreviations Abbreviations of books of the Bible Table of Psalm numbering Part I Languages, writing systems and book production

Part II The Hebrew Bible and Old Testaments

5 The Old Testament text and its transmission 6 The literary history of the Hebrew Bible 7 The Old Testament canons 8 The ‘apocryphal’ Old Testament 9 From inner-biblical interpretation to rabbinic exegesis 10 The Aramaic Targums 11 Scriptural interpretation at Qumran 12 The Septuagint 13 Biblical interpretation in Greek Jewish writings 14 Scripture in the Jerusalem temple 15 The political and legal uses of scripture 16 Modern editions of the Hebrew Bible

Part III The New Testament

17 The New Testament canon 18 The New Testament text and versions 19 The ‘apocryphal’ New Testament 20 The Old Testament in the New Testament

Part IV Biblical versions other than the Hebrew and the Greek

21 The Latin Bible 22 The Syriac versions of the Bible 23 The translation of the Bible into Coptic

Part V The reception of the Bible in the post-New Testament period

24 The interpretation of the Bible in the second century 25 Gnostic and Manichaean interpretation 26 Origen 27 Eusebius 28 Jerome 29 Augustine 30 Syriac exegesis 31 Figurative readings: their scope and justification 32 Traditions of exegesis 33 Pagans and the Bible 34 Exegetical genres in the patristic era 35 The Bible in doctrinal development and Christian councils 36 The Bible in liturgy 37 The Bible in popular and non-literary culture

Select bibliography Index of manuscripts Index of scriptural and related sources General index