Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press; Updated edition (October 1, 2024)
Language: English
Hardcover: 2240 pages
ISBN-10: 0664266975
ISBN-13: 978-0664266974
Item Weight: 3.95 pounds
Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.5 x 3 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #20,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #33 in Christian Bible Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha #382 in Christian Bible Study (Books) #597 in Christian Bibles (Books)
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From the Publisher
Who is this for?
The Westminster Study Bible is a Bible for all readers, helping people of diverse backgrounds understand the many different ways the Bible has been used and misused, while at the same time providing the most up-to-date scholarly insights into the biblical texts and their ancient contexts.
Reading and engaging the Bible today is not as simple as discovering what it meant in its time to determine what it means for all time. All readers—whether students or instructors, clergy or general readers, religious or nonreligious—bring their own perspectives to the interpretation of the Bible. The WSB pays close attention to the interdisciplinary connections that contemporary students, teachers, religious leaders, and general readers from diverse backgrounds will find both useful and relevant.
Moreover, The Westminster Study Bible is an ideal textbook for a range of biblical studies courses, as well as courses in religion, philosophy, and the general humanities, whether introductory or advanced.
Features
Introductions
Study Notes
Thematic Essays
Excursuses (Sidebars)
Tables, Charts, and Diagrams
Maps
Index
Unique Features of the Westminster Study Bible
Tables, Charts, Diagrams, and Maps
Tables, charts, and diagrams introduce historical timelines, rulers of ancient empires, measurements, Gospel parallels, and more. Completely new, color maps illustrate ancient Near Eastern geography, political territories, historical events, and place names across the time span of the biblical writings.
Excursuses
Nearly two hundred excursuses (i.e. brief sidebars) offer more expansive discussions of important topics relating to the biblical text. There are four different themes: excursuses that (1) Read through time for interpretation of a text has changed through the years, (2) Make connections to events or circumstances beyond the immediate passage, (3) Focus on a more detailed consideration of a theme, concept, figure, or place, and (4) Go deeper on a topic than can be offered in briefer study notes. Examples include The Exodus Event, Woman Wisdom, Black and Beautiful, Isaiah and Disability, Anti-Judaism, and Revelation in Popular Culture.
Thematic Essays
Fifteen thematic essays provide wide-ranging treatments of the different ways the Bible may be read and interpreted, examine aspects of the Bible’s history and its ancient contexts, explore various themes in biblical literature as they relate to contemporary concerns and issues, and show how the Bible has been received and interpreted in culture and science over time and locations. Essays include: The Bible and Methods: How to Read the Bible, The Bible in Global Contexts, and The Bible, Science, and the Environment, among others.
Get to Know the Editors
Emerson B. Powery
Emerson B. Powery is Professor of Biblical Studies and Interim Dean of the School of Arts, Culture, and Society at Messiah University. He is the author of Jesus Reads Scripture: The Function of Jesus’ Use of Scripture in the Synoptic Gospels and The Good Samaritan: Luke 10 for the Life of the Church; the coauthor of The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved; and a contributor to and coeditor of True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary. He also serves as the general editor for Early Christianity and Its Literature, a book series of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Stacy Davis
Stacy Davis is Professor of Religious Studies and Theology and Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s College. She is the author of This Strange Story: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Curse of Canaan from Antiquity to 1865 and Haggai and Malachiin the Wisdom Commentary Series. She has contributed to Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo as well as The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century.
Mary F. Foskett
Mary F. Foskett is Wake Forest Kahle Professor of Religious Studies and John Thomas Albritton Fellow at Wake Forest University. She is the author of A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity and Interpreting the Bible: Approaching the Text in Preparation for Preaching. She is also coeditor of Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation; Between Experience and Interpretation: Engaging the Writings of the New Testament;and Diverse Strands of a Common Thread: An Introduction to Ethnic Chinese Biblical Interpretation.
Brent A. Strawn
Brent A. Strawn is D. Moody Smith Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and Professor of Law at Duke University. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence; Lies My Preacher Told Me: An Honest Look at the Old Testament; The Old Testament Is Dying: A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment; The Old Testament: A Concise Introduction; and The Incomparable God: Readings in Biblical Theology.He is coeditor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law and served as both translator and member of the editorial board for The Common English Bible, as well as the book reviewer for Exodus and section review leader of the Pentateuch for the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.