Story of the Bible
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Led by a renowned scholar, trace the development of biblical texts across millennia. You'll get invaluable insight into the remarkable and complicated process by which the Bible came into being.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Telling the Story of a Book
- 02: Making TaNaK
- 03: Forms of Jewish Scripture
- 04: Birth of the Christian Bible
- 05: Formation of Jewish and Christian Canons
- 06: Writing and Copying Manuscripts
- 07: Imperial Sponsorship and the Bible
- 08: Texts and Translations-The Ancient East
- 09: Old Latin and the Vulgate
- 10: Other Ancient Versions
- 11: Monasteries and Manuscripts
- 12: Interpretation within Judaism
- 13: Interpretation in Medieval Christianity
- 14: The Renaissance, Printing, and the Bible
- 15: The Protestant Reformation and the Bible
- 16: Translating the Bible into Modern Languages
- 17: The First Efforts at Englishing the Bible
- 18: The King James Version
- 19: The Romance of Manuscripts
- 20: Searching for the Critical Text
- 21: The Historical-Critical Approach
- 22: The Bible in Contemporary Judaism
- 23: Contemporary Christians and Their Bibles
- 24: The Bible's Story Continues
Taught by
Luke Timothy Johnson
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