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Historian James Barr has written for The Economist and the Daily Telegraph. He is a Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.


Average rating: 3.87 · 99 ratings · 22 reviews · 34 distinct works
Setting the Desert on Fire:...
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions
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Fundamentalism
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions
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A Line in the Sand: Britain...
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The Semantics Of Biblical L...
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Beyond Fundamentalism
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1984
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Escaping From Fundamentalism
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1984
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Holy Scripture: Canon, Auth...
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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Setting the Desert on Fire
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The Bible in the Modern World
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
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“A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements must be based on the social linguistic consciousness related to usage.”
James Barr, The Semantics Of Biblical Language



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