James C. VanderKam

Hershel Shanks

James A. Sanders

Peter Kyle McCarter

Biblical Archaeology Society

Overview of the history of the Scrolls: their discovery, their origin, their translation, and the contention over their intellectual "ownership."

After Forty Years : Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution, October 27, 1990

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Lee Martin McDonald

The origins, development, and continuing viability of the various biblical canons remain hot topics for scholarly discussion. As historical study of the shape of the canon in diverse ancient times and places intensifies, fundamental but complex issues emerge. Many biblical interpreters now pay special attention to canonical context. Others propose adding to or deleting from the canon. Still others question the very concept of a canon on historical, textual, and theological grounds. In this major collection of studies, thirty-one leading scholars discuss the state of contemporary research on aspects of canonicity pertaining to their own areas of expertise.

The Canon Debate

Craig A. Evans

The studies that make up this book explore in what ways Israel's sacred tradition developed into canonical scripture and in what ways this sacred tradition was interpreted in early Judaism and Christianity. This collection will stimulate continuing investigation into the growth and interpretation of scripture in the context of the Jewish and Christian communities of faith, and will serve well as a reader for graduate courses with its focus on early exegesis and intertextuality.

The Function of Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Tradition

David M. Carr

Richard D. Weis

This volume of essays addresses from a variety of vantage points the relation of scriptures and community that has been so central to the canonical critical work of James A. Sanders. The first part of the volume focuses on the formation of the Jewish and Christian canons and texts in them, while the second part looks at ancient and modern appropriations of canonical texts. Together these essays show the multiple potential links between canonical criticism and historical, literary, feminist and other approaches in contemporary biblical studies.

Essays on Scripture and Community in Honor of James A. Sanders

A Gift of God in Due Season

The Function of Sacred Tradition in Luke-Acts

Luke and Scripture

Jim Alvin Sanders

Suffering as Divine Discipline in the Old Testament and Post-Biblical Judaism

Lightly tracing his personal experiences growing up in the Bible Belt as a born-again Christian, James A. Sanders recounts his second rebirth experience and subsequent efforts to battle what can most broadly be called evangelicalism's denial of dignity and human worth to those different from the so-called norm. While Sanders cherishes his early experience of being "saved" or "born again," he has become deeply concerned at what has happened to the evangelical movement in America, especially in its being politicized and removed from any kind of valid interpretation of the Bible itself. Sanders critiques evangelicalism for restricting the Holy Spirit's work to the realm of personal experience and so for denying the Spirit's work in society to move believers beyond the ancient mores and metaphors that biblical authors and editors used to record God's work in antiquity. Sanders proposes that Christians read the Bible honestly in its ancient and moral contexts, and attempt with humility to register its prophetic condemnation of tribal views of God, in order to heed the Spirit's urgings to engage in the advancing monotheizing process that the Bible demands of its adherents.

A Memoir

The Re-birth of a Born-Again Christian

A Cost Analysis of how Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Craig Alan Evans

Šěmaryahū Ṭalmōn

This collection of studies is in honor of Professor James A. Sanders, a leading scholar in the fields of canon of Scripture, textual criticism, and intertextuality. Contributors include leading scholars in these and related fields of study.

Studies in Biblical Intertextuality in Honor of James A. Sanders

The Quest for Context and Meaning

The Dead Sea Psalms Scroll

In this important collection of essays James A. Sanders offers his most significant work on the text and canon of the Hebrew Bible, along with his seminal studies of the Qumran Scrolls. He has been at the forefront of the study of canon formation, history of interpretation, and textual criticism, with specialty in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the use of the Old Testament in the New. These studies document the variety of textual traditions, as well as the diversity and unsettled, incipient state of the collection of sacred literature that was regarded as authoritative or canonical in the late Second Temple period. They laid the foundation on which today's scholarly discussion is focused.

Volume I: Text, Canon, and Qumran

Scripture in Its Historical Contexts

This book explores the ways in which early Christian writers and communities, from late antiquity through the New Testament period, interpreted the scriptures of Israel, as they sought to understand Jesus and the Gospel in relation to God's revelation and past acts in history. These essays represent work on the growing edge of studies of the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament. The contents, authored by both veteran and younger scholars, treat methods and canons, Jesus and the Gospels, and Acts and the Epistles.

James A. Sanders

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