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Content. First Comprehensive Reference Work on the Bible and its reception, edited by an international team of scholars from over 50 countries, all experts in their fields. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2010 Interdisciplinary and international
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Content • First Comprehensive Reference Work on the Bible and its reception, edited by an international team of scholars from over 50 countries, all experts in theirfields. • CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2010 • Interdisciplinary and international • Excellent resource for scholars in Biblical and Religious Studies and related fields • Easy searching of the content via a powerful search engine • Regular update of the online version (four times a year) offering articles that weren’t yet published in print
Content • EBR pursues a twofold task: • Rendering of the current state of knowledge • Comprehensive and in-depth • Origins and development of the Bible in its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity • Documenting the history of the Bible's reception • Christian churches and the Jewish Diaspora • Islam, other religious traditions and current religious movements, Western and non-Western alike, • literature, art, music, and film
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