James Barr





James Barr

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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: 3.86 · 145 ratings · 9 reviews · 35 distinct works · Similar authors
Fundamentalism
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions
The Semantics Of Biblical L...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1961 — 4 editions
Escaping From Fundamentalism
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1984
Scope and Authority of the ...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
The Bible in the Modern World
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
Beyond Fundamentalism
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1984
Holy Scripture: Canon, Auth...
3.17 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
Biblical Words For Time
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
Concept of Biblical Theology
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
Old and New in Interpretati...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1966
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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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