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I realized in my last post to make people aware of the New Interpreter's Bible I stated that top scholars wrote it but i gave no names. Here is a complete list of all 97 contributors, I know the page says 18 but if you count up the authors listed there alone you get more than that. So here is the information you will see a number of favourites I am sure and give you an idea why I like this set so much….
-Dan
CONTRIBUTORS
ELIZABETH ACHTEMEIER
Adjunct Professor of Bible and Homiletics
Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
(Presbyterian Church [U.S.A.])
Joel
LESLIE C. ALLEN
Professor of Old Testament
Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, California
(Baptist)
1 & 2 Chronicles
GARY A. ANDERSON
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
(The Roman Catholic Church)
Introduction to Israelite Religion
DAVID L. BARTLETT
Lantz Professor of Preaching and Communication
The Divinity School
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
(American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.)
1 Peter
ROBERT A. BENNETT
Episcopal Divinity School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
(The Episcopal Church)
Zephaniah
ADELE BERLIN
Professor of Hebrew and East Asian Languages and Literature
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Introduction to Hebrew Poetry
BRUCE C. BIRCH
Wesley Theological Seminary
Washington, DC
(The United Methodist Church)
1 & 2 Samuel
PHYLLIS A. BIRD
Associate Professor of Old Testament Interpretation
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Evanston, Illinois
The Authority of the Bible
C. CLIFTON BLACK
Associate Professor of New Testament
Perkins School of Theology
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
1, 2, & 3 John
JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP
John A. O’Brien Professor of Biblical Studies
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
Introduction to the Pentateuch
M. EUGENE BORING
I. Wylie and Elizabeth M. Briscoe Professor of New Testament
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
(Christian Church [Disciples of Christ])
Matthew
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament
Columbia Theological Seminary
Decatur, Georgia
(United Church of Christ)
Exodus
DAVID G. BUTTRICK
Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
The Use of the Bible in Preaching
RONALD E. CLEMENTS
Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament
King’s College
University of London
London, England
(Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland)
Deuteronomy
RICHARD J. CLIFFORD
Weston School of Theology
Introduction to Wisdom Literature
JOHN J. COLLINS
Professor of Hebrew Bible
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Introduction to Early Jewish Religion
ROBERT B. COOTE
San Francisco Theological Seminary
San Anselmo, California
Joshua
FRED B. CRADDOCK
Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament, Emeritus
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Hebrews
TONI CRAVEN
Introduction to Narrative Literature
JAMES L. CRENSHAW
Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Sirach
KEITH R. CRIM
Pastor
New Concord Presbyterian Church
Concord, Virginia
Modern English Versions of the Bible
R. ALAN CULPEPPER
Dean
The School of Theology
Mercer University
(Southern Baptist Convention)
Luke
KATHERYN PFISTERER DARR
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Ezekiel
ROBERT DORAN
Professor of Religion
Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts
1 & 2 Maccabees
THOMAS B. DOZEMAN
United Theological Seminary
Dayton, Ohio
Numbers
JAMES D. G. DUNN
Lightfoot Professor of Divinity
University of Durham
Durham, England
(The Methodist Church [Great Britain])
1 & 2 Timothy; Titus
ELDON JAY EPP
Harkness Professor of Biblical Literature and Chairman of the Department of Religion
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Ancient Texts and Versions of the New Testament
KATHLEEN ROBERTSON FARMER
Ruth
CAIN HOPE FELDER
Professor of New Testament Language and Literature
The School of Divinity
Howard University
Philemon
TERENCE E. FRETHEIM
Luther Seminary
Saint Paul, Minnesota
(Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Genesis
FRANCISCO O. GARCÍA-TRETO
Professor of Religion and Chairman of the Department of Religion
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas
Nahum
CATHERINE GUNSALUS GONZÁLEZ
Professor of Church History
The Use of the Bible in Hymns, Liturgy, and Education
JUSTO L. GONZÁLEZ
Adjunct Professor of Church History
How the Bible Has Been Interpreted in Christian Tradition
DONALD E. GOWAN
Robert Cleveland Holland Professor of Old Testament
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Amos
JUDITH MARIE GUNDRY-VOLF
Assistant Professor of New Testament
Ephesians
DANIEL J. HARRINGTON
Professor of New Testament
Introduction to the Canon
RICHARD B. HAYS
Galatians
THEODORE HIEBERT
McCormick Theological Seminary
(Mennonite Church)
Habakkuk
CARL R. HOLLADAY
Contemporary Methods of Reading the Bible
MORNA D. HOOKER
Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
Philippians
DAVID C. HOPKINS
Life in Ancient Palestine
DENISE DOMBKOWSKI HOPKINS
Judith
LUKE T. JOHNSON
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
James
WALTER C. KAISER, JR.
Colman Mockler Distinguished Professor of Old Testament
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
South Hamilton, Massachusetts
(The Evangelical Free Church of America)
Leviticus
LEANDER E. KECK
Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology
Introduction to The New Interpreter’s Bible
CHAN-HIE KIM
Professor of New Testament and Director of Korean Studies
The School of Theology at Claremont
Claremont, California
Reading the Bible as Asian Americans
RALPH W. KLEIN
Dean and Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor of Old Testament
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Ezra; Nehemiah
MICHAEL KOLARCIK
Assistant Professor
Regis College
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Book of Wisdom
WILLIAM L. LANE
Paul T. Walls Professor of Wesleyan and Biblical Studies
Department of Religion
Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington
(Free Methodist Church of North America)
2 Corinthians
ANDREW T. LINCOLN
Department of Biblical Studies
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England
(The Church of England)
Colossians
J. CLINTON MCCANN
Assistant Professor of Old Testament
Eden Theological Seminary
St. Louis, Missouri
Psalms
ABRAHAM J. MALHERBE
Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Emeritus
(Church of Christ)
The Cultural Context of the New Testament: The Greco-Roman World
W. EUGENE MARCH
Arnold Black Rhodes Professor of Old Testament
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Louisville, Kentucky
Haggai
JAMES EARL MASSEY
Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor-at-Large
Anderson University
Preacher-in-Residence, Park Place Church Anderson, Indiana
(Church of God [Anderson, Ind.])
Reading the Bible from Particular Social Locations: An Introduction;
Reading the Bible as African Americans
J. MAXWELL MILLER
Introduction to the History of Ancient Israel
PATRICK D. MILLER
Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, New Jersey
Jeremiah
FREDERICK J. MURPHY
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, Massachusetts
Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature
CAROL A. NEWSOM
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Job
GEORGE W. E. NICKELSBURG
Professor of Christian Origins and Early Judaism
School of Religion
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
The Jewish Context of the New Testament
IRENE NOWELL
Benedictine College
Atchison, Kansas
Tobit
KATHLEEN M. O’CONNOR
Associate Professor of Biblical Studies
Maryknoll School of Theology
Maryknoll, New York
Lamentations
GAIL R. O’DAY
Almar H. Shatford Associate Professor of Homiletics
John
BEN C. OLLENBURGER
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries
Elkhart, Indiana
Zechariah
DENNIS T. OLSON
Judges
CAROLYN OSIEK
Department of Biblical Languages and Literature
Catholic Theological Union
Reading the Bible as Women
SAMUEL PAGÁN
Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Obadiah
SIMON B. PARKER
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and
Harrell F. Beck Scholar in Hebrew Scripture
The Ancient Near Eastern Literary Background of the Old Testament
PHEME PERKINS
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Mark
DAVID L. PETERSEN
The Iliff School of Theology
Denver, Colorado
Introduction to Prophetic Literature
CHRISTOPHER C. ROWLAND
Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
The Queen’s College
Oxford, England
Revelation
ANTHONY J. SALDARINI
Professor of Biblical Studies
Baruch; Letter of Jeremiah
J. PAUL SAMPLEY
Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
The School of Theology and The Graduate Division
1 Corinthians
JUDITH E. SANDERSON
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Seattle University
Ancient Texts and Versions of the Old Testament
EILEEN M. SCHULLER
Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Malachi
FERNANDO F. SEGOVIA
Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Reading the Bible as Hispanic Americans
CHRISTOPHER R. SEITZ
Isaiah 40-66
CHOON-LEONG SEOW
1 & 2 Kings
MICHAEL A. SIGNER
Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture
How the Bible Has Been Interpreted in Jewish Tradition
MOISÉS SILVA
Westminster Theological Seminary
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(The Orthodox Presbyterian Church)
Contemporary Theories of Biblical Interpretation
DANIEL J. SIMUNDSON
Micah
ABRAHAM SMITH
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
(The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.)
1 & 2 Thessalonians
DANIEL L. SMITH-CHRISTOPHER
Associate Professor of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California
(The Society of Friends [Quaker])
Daniel; Bel and the Dragon; Prayer of Azariah; Susannah
MARION L. SOARDS
Professor of New Testament Studies
Acts
ROBERT C. TANNEHILL
Academic Dean and Harold B. Williams Professor of Biblical Studies
Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Delaware, Ohio
The Gospels and Narrative Literature
GEORGE E. TINKER
Associate Professor of Cross-Cultural Ministries
Reading the Bible as Native Americans
W. SIBLEY TOWNER
The Reverend Archibald McFadyen Professor of Biblical Interpretation
Ecclesiastes
PHYLLIS TRIBLE
Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature
Union Theological Seminary
New York, New York
Jonah
GENE M. TUCKER
Professor of Old Testament, Emeritus
Isaiah 1-39
CHRISTOPHER M. TUCKETT
Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis
Faculty of Theology
University of Manchester
Manchester, England
Jesus and the Gospels
RAYMOND C. VAN LEEUWEN
Professor of Religion and Theology
Eastern College
Saint Davids, Pennsylvania
(Christian Reformed Church in North America)
Proverbs
ROBERT W. WALL
Introduction to Epistolary Literature
DUANE F. WATSON
Associate Professor of New Testament Studies
Department of Religion and Philosophy
Malone College
Canton, Ohio
2 Peter; Jude
RENITA J. WEEMS
(African Methodist Episcopal Church)
Song of Songs
SIDNIE A. WHITE
Assistant Professor of Religion
Albright College
Reading, Pennsylvania
Esther; Additions to Esther
VINCENT L. WIMBUSH
(Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.)
The Ecclesiastical Context of the New Testament
N. THOMAS WRIGHT
Lecturer in New Testament Studies
Fellow, Tutor, and Chaplain
Worcester College
Romans
GALE A. YEE
University of Saint Thomas
Hosea
St. Jerome's House † Install
Dan Francis:Here is a complete list of all 97 contributors,
WoW, Dan, Thanks for all the hard work.
I was surprised to see how wide ranging the contributors are. Good to know.
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Well one might not know it from looking at the web page pre pub, I am just hoping it makes it into production sooner than later, although I do know that this work will make it, it's too widely used to even imagine it not making it into logos epesically when thee might be only a hand flu of orders more needed to bring it over the top.
Lower prices are here now no reason not to order it ASAP….
Wow, that's a power-house collection of scholars. Thanks for sharing the list! I'd placed my order for the NIB already months ago (January).
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General Editor’s Preface
On behalf of the Editorial Board, I welcome you to the company of users of The New Interpreter’s® Dictionary of the Bible, a five-volume set offering the best in contemporary biblical scholarship. This new dictionary stands in the continuing tradition of the Interpreter’s® series, developed for church and synagogue teachers and preachers and with the goal of supporting congregations and all students of the Bible as they seek to learn and grow.
Comprehensive in scope: The dictionary covers all the persons and places mentioned in the Bible. It contains a full range of articles on the cultural, religious, and political contexts of the Bible in the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world, and it offers many articles explaining key methods of biblical interpretation. Theological in focus: The dictionary includes numerous articles on theological and ethical themes and concepts important to understanding the biblical witness.
The original Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, published in the 1960s, remained a key reference tool for pastors and teachers for nearly half a century. Yet it was of course a product of its time. Biblical scholarship moved an enormous distance in the intervening years, in knowledge of the literature and culture of the ancient world, and in the development of new approaches that have opened fresh horizons of interpretation, for individual books of the Bible, and for many theological concepts. Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, of ancient Gnostic documents, and of extra-biblical prophetic texts from the ancient Near East are but a few of the many areas in which scholarship focused on extra-biblical texts has developed new data of great significance for understanding the Bible. Increased attention to gender, ethnicity, and economic class offers new insights into previously neglected aspects of the culture of the biblical world, which in some cases leads to striking new perspectives on biblical texts. Archaeology teams up with a wide range of natural sciences to develop methods that give greater insight into ancient community life in addition to military upheavals. Newly discovered inscriptions and artifacts shed new light on biblical history and on religious beliefs and practices of ancient Israel and early Christianity. Recent progress in the analysis of Hebrew poetry, in understanding of Greek rhetoric, in theories of characterization, as well as new models of social-scientific analysis and cultural studies offer new avenues of inquiry in support of theological reading of the biblical text. To account for these and many other exciting developments, we have produced an entirely new dictionary rather than a revision of the old. While there may not be new information on certain obscure biblical persons or places, the major articles, almost without exception, introduce fresh material and even entirely new topics that were not on the 1960s scholarly horizon.
Of course these many changes in biblical studies have not taken place in a vacuum. The world itself has also changed greatly. As we move through the 21st cent., we face a world grown smaller by speed of communication, yet in many ways politically and economically more fragmented (or at least we are more aware of the fragmentation) than ever before. Ecologically we face a possibly precarious future; factionalism and hostility seems on the increase within and among some religious and racial/ethnic groups, even as signs of reconciliation and search for common ground blossom in unexpected places.
While such issues will not be addressed directly on every page, it is the aim of this dictionary to enable wise use of the biblical tradition in theological and ethical approaches to these difficult issues.
As the knowledge of the world surrounding the Bible and also methods for studying the Bible have expanded and changed, so also has the profile of the leaders in biblical scholarship. The New Interpreter’s Dictionary contributors number approximately 900 women and men in more than 40 different countries from Australia to Africa, from the Americas to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Chosen for their scholarly expertise and publication in the areas of their articles, they are identified with Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, and many different Protestant traditions; they range in personal commitment from conservative to liberal and come from many racial/ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The wide scope of the contributors’ contexts reflects the global scope of biblical scholarship of the 21st cent.
The Editorial Board took joint responsibility for nominating the wide range of authors who have contributed to this dictionary. Meetings, followed by numerous conference calls and innumerable rounds of email communication enabled comment and consensus building around the hundreds of nominees. Access to such a global span of contributors was greatly eased by computer and internet technology that could not have been feasible even a decade ago, with a website through which more than 7,100 articles were moved seamlessly and without paper from author to press and then through the various editorial stages. All but the very briefest articles were reviewed for content, balance of perspective, and accessibility by at least one member of the editorial board, and web and email facilitated discussion with authors of any proposed revisions. In addition, experienced pastors were recruited for further review of select longer articles, as an additional check on the readability and theological usefulness of the material for the intended audience.
In guidelines for authors and editors, this project has emphasized openness and generosity to various points of view. In an era when the very notion of one right answer to every question is itself increasingly called into question, we have asked our authors to offer their own perspectives on their topics while still including a clear and charitable presentation of significant alternative scholarly viewpoints. The editors are grateful to the authors for their willingness to write in this style, which will provide a fuller interpretive context for readers who are seeking an introduction to a subject.
As General Editor, it is my joy to express appreciation to the entire Editorial Board for their untiring efforts. The Board itself reflects something of the ecclesial, cultural, and racial/ethnic diversity, as well as the range of scholarly expertise that we have worked to bring to fruition in our contributing authors. Thanks, then, to Samuel Balentine, Brian Blount, Joel Green, Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, Pheme Perkins, and Eileen Schuller for all that each of you has brought to our common work; and thanks to the staff of Abingdon Press, who have shepherded this long process with intelligence, imagination, and love.
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, General Editor
Thanks, Dan. That is very helpful. I hope it makes it into production, too.
I keep hoping that Abingdon will publish the Bicentennial edition of Wesley's Works in Logos format. As you know there is no other critical edition with scholarly notes by the greatest Wesley scholars of our time, (such as Thomas Oden, etc.) I have the edition in book form, and in Abingdon's digital format. But I long to have it in Logos. I believe it would sell much better than the public domain version now in Prepub.
Perhaps if NIB and Dictionary sell in Logos, Abingdon will also release Wesley's Works.
"In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church," John Wesley
Michael Childs: Thanks, Dan. That is very helpful. I hope it makes it into production, too. I keep hoping that Abingdon will publish the Bicentennial edition of Wesley's Works in Logos format. As you know there is no other critical edition with scholarly notes by the greatest Wesley scholars of our time, (such as Thomas Oden, etc.) I have the edition in book form, and in Abingdon's digital format. But I long to have it in Logos. I believe it would sell much better than the public domain version now in Prepub. Perhaps if NIB and Dictionary sell in Logos, Abingdon will also release Wesley's Works.
Well i think it is very likely too now that it is at a reasonable price point. Who knows maybe before years end it come under contract…. and with any luck we can have it by Easter. At least that is a fondest hope….
Thanks, Dan. That is, indeed, useful and instructive.
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