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- Title
R. H. Charles and Modern Biblical Studies.
- Authors
VANDERKAM, JAMES C.
- Abstract
The presentation centers on R. H. Charles, the pioneer scholar of Jewish apocalypses and pseudepigrapha in the English-speaking world. After a short biography of Charles, I offer a survey of his career and publications, followed by an explanation of how he and his contemporaries saw themselves as standing at a pivotal time in the history of interpreting the Bible. A listing of some examples from Charles’s work illustrates the point. The address concludes with several comparisons between biblical studies as practiced a century ago and today and with an imaginative look at what Charles might have thought had he been able to attend a twenty-first century Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.
- Subjects
CHARLES, R. H.; BIBLICAL studies; APOCALYPSE; APOCRYPHAL books; SOCIETY of Biblical Literature
- Publication
Journal of Biblical Literature, 2022, Vol 141, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
0021-9231
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15699/jbl.1411.2022.1b