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Notes on Contributors viii List of Figures xiii Preface to the Paperback Edition xv Introduction 1John F. A. Sawyer Part I Revealing the Past 9 1 The Ancient World 11Philip R. Davies 2 The Patristic Period 28Kate Cooper 3 The Middle Ages 39Mary Dove 4 The Renaissance 54Ilona N. Rashkow 5 The Reformation 69Peter Matheson 6 The Counter-Reformation 85Euan Cameron 7 The Modern World 104John W. Rogerson Part II The Nomadic Text 117 8 Judaism 119Edward Kessler 9 Islam 135Stephen N. Lambden 10 Asia 158Choan-Seng Song 11 Africa 176Jonathan A. Draper 12 North America 198Scott M. Langston 13 Latin America 217Erhard S. Gerstenberger 14 Australasia 232Roland Boer and Ibrahim Abraham Part III The Bible and the Senses 251 15 Literature 253Jo Carruthers 16 Film 268Alice Bach 17 Music 286John W. Rogerson 18 Art 299Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons 19 Architecture 323Andrew Ballantyne 20 The Theatre 338Meg Twycross 21 The Circus 365Burke O. Long 22 The Body 381Gerard Loughlin Part IV Reading in Practice 397 23 Contextuality 399Gerald West 24 Politics 414Tim Gorringe 25 Ecology 432Anne Primavesi 26 Psychology 447Ilona N. Rashkow 27 Gender 464Deborah F. Sawyer 28 Nationalism 480Jo Carruthers 29 Post-colonialism 497Sharon A. Bong 30 Postmodernism 515Andrew Tate Index of Biblical References 534 General Index 546

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Consisting of over 25 articles written by distinguished specialists from around the world, this text draws on interdisciplinary examples in order to demonstrate how the Bible has impacted on all the major social contexts where it has been influential - world-wide, ancient, medieval and modern

The Blackwell companion to the Bible and culture