Presidential Voices (Biblical Scholarship in North America) [Hardcover]

Attridge (Author), H.W. (Author), VanderKam (Author), J.C. (Author), Harold W. Attridge (Editor), James C. Vanderkam (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 9004151230 | ISBN-13: 978-9004151239 | Publication Date: June 30, 2007

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Editorial Reviews

Review

This volume is a fascinating selection of presidential addresses to the SBL, founded in 1880. Twenty-three of these addresses have been selected by Attridge and Vanderkam as particularly noteworthy performances of a president s technical sophistication or his (and, in two cases, her) general vision for the field. Worth the price of the volume is the appendix listing titles of all of the additional addresses not included here, most of which are available in the archives of JBL. These intriguing speeches clearly indicate our need for further analysis of the social and institutional history of academic biblical studies and her guild associations. No doubt many of our own professional conundrums - among them our relation to the general study of 'religion' the shifting valence of 'theology' and 'history,' and the distinctions between North American biblical scholarship and that of Europe and the UK (not to mention elsewhere) 0 will appear differently in light of such reflection. --Ward Blanton, Journal for the Study of the New Testament (30/5 [2008]: 134) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Harold W. Attridge is Dean of the Yale Divinity School and the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament. In addition to serving as SBL president in 2001, he has authored and edited numerous works, including Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Fortress) and Psalms in Community (co-edited with Margot Fassler; Society of Biblical Literature). James C. VanderKam is John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame and the current editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature. In addition to editing volumes in the DJD series, he has authored, among others, An Introduction to Early Judaism (Eerdmans) and From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile (Augsburg Fortress).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 350 pages
• Publisher: BRILL (June 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004151230
• ISBN-13: 978-9004151239
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Harold W. Attridge, Ph.D., is Dean of Yale University Divinity School and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament. He has published many scholarly contributions to New Testament exegesis and to the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the history of the early Church. He also has served as the president of the Society of Biblical Literature.