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03937aam a2200361 i 4500 001 6BBB0DAA0C7C11EC8E70AEE442ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210903010031 008 200605s2021 njuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020025374 020 $a 1119730376 020 $a 9781119730378 035 $a (OCoLC)1164818771 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d WIO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BS538.3 W38 2021 100 1 $a Watts, James W. $q (James Washington), $d 1960- $e author. 245 10 $a Understanding the Bible as a scripture in history, culture and religion / $c by James W. Watts. 264 1 $a [Hoboken, New Jersey] : $b Wiley-Blackwell, $c [2021] 300 $a xvi, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Scripture and ritual -- Torah and Pentateuch -- The Torah's rhetoric -- The Torah's iconic dimension -- The Torah's expressive dimension -- The Torah's semantic dimension -- Rhetoric about Jesus -- The rhetoric of the Gospels -- The Gospels' iconic dimension -- The Gospels' expressive dimension -- The Gospels' semantic dimension -- The Bible's iconic dimension -- The Bible's expressive dimension -- The Bible's semantic dimension -- The history of the Bible as a scripture. 520 $a The Bible is a popular subject of study and research, yet biblical studies gives little attention to the reason for its popularity: its religious role as a scripture. Understanding the Bible as a Scripture in History, Culture, and Religion integrates the history of the religious interpretation and ritual uses of biblical books into a survey of their rhetoric, composition, and theology in their ancient contexts. Emphasizing insights from comparative studies of different religious scriptures, it combines discussion of the Bible's origins with its cultural history into a coherent understanding of its past and present function as a scripture. A prominent expert on biblical rhetoric and the ritualization of books, James W. Watts describes how Jews and Christians ritualize the Bible by interpreting it, by expressing it in recitations, music, art, and film, and by venerating the physical scroll and book. The first two sections of the book are organized around the Torah and the Gospels--which have been the focus of Jewish and Christian ritualization of scriptures from ancient to modern times--and treat the history of other biblical books in relation to these two central blocks of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. In addition to analyzing the semantic contents of all the Bible's books as persuasive rhetoric, Watts describes their ritualization in the iconic and expressive dimensions in the centuries since they began to function as a scripture, as well as in their origins in ancient Judaism and Christianity. The third section on the cultural history and scriptural function of modern bibles concludes by discussing their influence today and the controversies they have fueled about history, science, race, and gender. Innovative and insightful, Understanding the Bible as a Scripture in History, Culture, and Religion is a groundbreaking introduction to the study of the Bible as a scripture, and an ideal textbook for courses in biblical studies and comparative scripture studies. 630 00 $a Bible $x Use. 630 00 $a Bible $v Comparative studies. 630 00 $a Bible $x Socio-rhetorical criticism. 630 00 $a Bible $x Study and teaching. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Watts, James W. (James Washington), 1960- $t Understanding the Bible as a scripture in history, culture and religion $d [Hoboken, New Jersey] : Wiley-Blackwell, [2021] $z 9781119730385 $w (DLC) 2020025375 941 $a 2 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724074643.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211102015708.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6BBB0DAA0C7C11EC8E70AEE442ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search