The Oxford handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity 1st Eugen J. Pentiuc

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190948655
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190948658
• Author(s): Eugen J. Pentiuc

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity investigates the various ways in which Orthodox Christian, i.e., Eastern and Oriental, communities, have received, shaped, and interpreted the Christian Bible. The handbook is divided into five parts: Text, Canon, Scripture within Tradition, Toward an Orthodox Hermeneutics, and Looking to the Future.

The first part focuses on how the Orthodox Church has never codified the Septuagint or any other textual witnesses as its authoritative text. Textual fluidity and pluriformity, a characteristic of Orthodoxy, is demonstrated by the various ancient and modern Bible translations into Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian among other languages. The second part discusses how, unlike in the Protestant and Roman-Catholic faiths where the canon of the Bible is “closed” and limited to 39 and 46 books, respectively, the Orthodox canon is “open-ended,” consisting of 39 canonical books and 10 or more anaginoskomena or “readable” books as additions to Septuagint. The third part shows how, unlike the classical Protestant view of sola scriptura and the Roman Catholic way of placing Scripture and Tradition on par as sources or means of divine revelation, the Orthodox view accords a central role to Scripture within Tradition, with the latter conceived not as a deposit of faith but rather as the Church’s life through history. The final two parts survey “traditional” Orthodox hermeneutics consisting mainly of patristic commentaries and liturgical interpretations found in hymnography and iconography, and the ways by which Orthodox biblical scholars balance these traditional hermeneutics with modern historical-critical approaches to the Bible.

Table contents:

Introduction: The Bible in Orthodox Christianity: Balancing Tradition with Modernity
Part I. Text
1. The Place of the Hebrew Old Testament Text in the Eastern Church
2. The Old Greek, Hebrew, and Other Text Witnesses in Eastern Orthodoxy
3. From Suspicion to Appreciation: The Change of Perception Regarding Theodotion’s Version of Daniel in Patristic Literature
4. Syriac Versions of the Bible
5. The Coptic Bible
6. Translation of the Bible into Armenian
7. Byzantine Lectionary Manuscripts and Their Significance for Biblical Textual Criticism
8. Past and Current Trends in New Testament Textual Criticism
Part II. Canon
9. The Emergence of Biblical Canons in Orthodox Christianity
10. “Splendid Brilliancy”: Orthodox Perspectives on Biblical Inspiration
11. The Special Status of the Anagignoskomena in Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy
12. Liturgical Use and Biblical Canonicity
13. The Biblical Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tawāhǝdo Church (EOTC)
Part III. Scripture within Tradition
14. Tradition: Generated by or Generating Scripture?
15. The Use of the Bible in Byzantine Liturgical Texts and Services
16. Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers
17. Theology, Philosophy, and Confessionalization: Eastern Orthodox Biblical Interpretation after the Fall of Constantinople up to the Late Seventeenth Century
18. The New Testament in the Orthodox Church: Liturgical and Pedagogical Aspects
Part IV. Toward an Orthodox Hermeneutics
19. Toward an Orthodox Hermeneutic
20. Orthodox Christianity, Patristic Exegesis, and Historical Criticism of the Bible
21. The Modern Search for the Literal Sense: Forerunners of the Challenge at Antioch
22. Antiochene Theoria and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture
23. Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy: A Brief Survey
24. Biblical Exegesis in the Syriac Churches
25. Biblical Interpretation in Ethiopian Patristic Literature
26. The Bible and the Armenian Church
27. Scriptural Interpretation in the Late Antique Coptic Tradition
28. Pastoral Use of the Bible in the Orthodox Church
29. Eastern Orthodox Views on Ancient Jewish Biblical Interpretation
30. Anti-Jewish Sentiments in Liturgical and Patristic Biblical Interpretations
31. Bible and Archaeology: An Orthodox Perspective
Part V. Looking to the Future
32. Reading from the End, Looking Forward
33. Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament? Tough Texts for Rough Times
34. The Bible in Orthodox Christian–Jewish Dialogue
35. Bible, Theology, and Science: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future
36. Theology–Science Dialogue: An Orthodox Perspective
37. How Orthodox Women Read and Teach the Bible
38. B.E.S.T.: Bridging Synchronic and Diachronic Modes of Interpretation
39. Reception History: A Paradigmatic Turn in Contemporary Biblical Scholarship
40. Modern Orthodox Biblical Interpretation
41. Toward an Integrative Reading of the Bible
Index

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