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The Bible in Human Society: Essays in Honour of John Rogerson.

The Journal of Theological Studies

| April 01, 1997 | Houston, Walter J. | COPYRIGHT 1993 Oxford University Press. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Essays in Honour of John Rogerson. Edited by M. Daniel Carroll R., David J. A. Clines, and Philip R. Davies. Pp. 479. Frontispiece. (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 200.) Sheffield Academic Press, 1995. ISBN 1 85075 568 x. 53 [pounds sterling]/$79.50.

This volume has been produced to mark John Rogerson's retirement from his chair at Sheffield, and is edited by two of his colleagues and one of his former students. Fittingly, in view of Professor Rogerson's lifelong preoccupations, it takes as its theme the role of the Bible in human society, and the majority of the essays are concerned with the interpretation of the Bible in particular communities of interpretation. Most of the essays are in English, but there are two in German.

The greatest number of essays are primarily concerned with the way in which readers at various times in history, but mainly in the present, interpret or ought to …

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