Books by Daniel J. Harrington
The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
by Peter Enns, Marc Zvi Brettler, Daniel J. Harrington
Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways?
The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant--to illustrate how to read the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament critically and religiously. Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington tackle a dilemma that not only haunts biblical scholarship today, but also disturbs students and others exposed to biblical criticism for the first time, either in university courses or through their own reading. Failure to resolve these conflicting interpretive strategies often results in rejection of either the critical approach or the religious approach--or both. But the authors demonstrate how biblical criticism--the process of establishing the original contextual meaning of biblical texts with the tools of literary and historical analysis--need not undermine religious interpretations of the Bible, but can in fact enhance them. They show how awareness of new archeological evidence, cultural context, literary form, and other tools of historical criticism can provide the necessary preparation for a sound religious reading. And they argue that the challenges such study raises for religious belief should be brought into conversation with religious tradition rather than deemed grounds for dismissing either that tradition or biblical criticism.
Guiding readers through the history of biblical exegesis within the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faith traditions, The Bible and the Believer bridges an age-old gap between critical and religious approaches to the Old Testament.
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Encountering Jesus in the Scriptures
by Daniel J. Harrington, Christopher R. Matthews
Daniel R. Harrington and Christopher R. Matthews have gathered in this volume fourteen essays by some of the preeminent names in biblical studies. The book seeks to make accessible some of the best modern scholarship on encountering Jesus in the Scriptures. Its focus is wider than the historians' quest. These essays try to explain not only who Jesus was in the first century but also what he might mean in the twenty-first century. Most of the contributors are Catholic scholars who have proved their ability to undertake serious technical research and to communicate the results of modern scholarship to nonspecialists. In addition to the editors' contributions, the essays include those by: Barbara Bowe, John R. Donahue, Eugene Hensell, John Dart, Carolyn Osiek, Amy-Jill Levine, Eugene J. Fisher, Barbara E. Reid, Gerald O'Collins, John Belmonte, and William A. Barry. +
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