Bar none!
I realized Logos doesn't have any of the works of two noteworthy scholars whose names begin with Bar-- and whom I used to confuse for each other, though they are quite different: Jerram Barrs and James Barr.
[CORRECTION: They do have 3 works by Barrs in Vyrso.]
By Jerram Barrs:
- Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts
- Delighting in the Law of the Lord: God's Alternative to Legalism and Moralism
- The Heart of Prayer
- Shepherds & Sheep: A Biblical View of Leading & Following
- Who Are the Peacemakers?
- Being Human: The Nature of Spiritual Experience (with Ranald Macaulay)
By James Barr:
- The Semantics of Biblical Language (1961)
- Biblical Words for Time. (Studies in Biblical Theology, First Series, 33) (1962)
- Old and New in Interpretation: A Study of the Two Testaments (1966)
- Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament (1968)
- The Bible in the Modern World (1973)
- Fundamentalism (1977) I already suggested this in another thread, but it's one of his better known works so it bears repeating)
- The Scope and Authority of the Bible (SCM Classics) (1980)
- Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism (1983)
- Beyond Fundamentalism: Biblical Foundations for Evangelical Christianity (1984)
- The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible (1989)
- Biblical Faith and Natural Theology: The Gifford Lectures for 1991 Delivered in the University of Edinburgh (1992)
- The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality (1993)
- The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective (1999)
- History and Ideology in the Old Testament: Biblical Studies at the End of a Millennium (2000)
- Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr: Volume I: Interpretation and Theology (2013)
- Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr: Volume II: Biblical Studies (2013)
- Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr: Volume III: Linguistics and Translation (2014)
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I have advocated for James Barr's work in the past, particularly the first listed here--The Semantics of Biblical Language. ALL of these should already be available in Logos.
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David Paul said:
I have advocated for James Barr's work in the past, particularly the first listed here--The Semantics of Biblical Language.
It was your thread here that inspired me to dig up a list of all of Barr's works to suggest, and that's partly why I listed it first (it was also first chronologically).
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I'd definitely be interested in these resources in Logos.
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That's Barr-y interesting.
Larry Hurtado had a good 50th anniversary blog article, which I copied out of context, since it's so germaine to Logos (hmmm ... BSL ... shhhh ... MJ's asleep).
'The basic points that Barr sought to make were, at the time of his book’s appearance, not well understood among biblical scholars. Sadly, I fear that this remains the case. Too many scholars (and so their students) still take an approach in which Hebrew or Greek words are treated as having fixed meanings, and so understanding texts is essentially a process of totting up a suitable dictionary meaning of all the words of their sentences. It is still news to many that the fundamental semantic unit is not the “word” but the sentence, and that “words” (lexical entries) acquire a specific meaning when deployed in sentences. Likewise, scholars often still don’t understand that word-constructions often take on their own meaning that is not the sum of the parts (e.g., “hot dog” isn’t the sum of the meanings of “hot” and “dog”!). '
http://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/50th-anniversary-barrs-semantics-of-biblical-language/
The Guardian also had a good obituary article back in 2006. Always checking out the obits.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/08/guardianobituaries.obituaries1
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Denise said:
That's Barr-y interesting.
Larry Hurtado had a good 50th anniversary blog article, which I copied out of context, since it's so germaine to Logos (hmmm ... BSL ... shhhh ... MJ's asleep).
'The basic points that Barr sought to make were, at the time of his book’s appearance, not well understood among biblical scholars. Sadly, I fear that this remains the case. Too many scholars (and so their students) still take an approach in which Hebrew or Greek words are treated as having fixed meanings, and so understanding texts is essentially a process of totting up a suitable dictionary meaning of all the words of their sentences. It is still news to many that the fundamental semantic unit is not the “word” but the sentence, and that “words” (lexical entries) acquire a specific meaning when deployed in sentences. Likewise, scholars often still don’t understand that word-constructions often take on their own meaning that is not the sum of the parts (e.g., “hot dog” isn’t the sum of the meanings of “hot” and “dog”!). '
These "let me set you straight" scholars such as Barr and Carson and Hurtado kinda irk me. So confident they know better...and if it weren't for the evidence otherwise, perhaps they just might. [8-)]
From Wikipedia:
Why was a sliced roll used? Because the sausages were too hot to hold otherwise.
Put that in your meat grinder and chew it, Hurtado.
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