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Staff profile

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Prof. John Barton

Oriel College

Phone: (2)76537

Email: john.barton@oriel.ox.ac.uk

Lecture Series:

Introduction to the Old Testament

CL 1 Isaiah 1, 6 and 40 (Hebrew Text)

CL 1 Theological Themes in the Old Testament

CL 1 Set Texts for God and Israel in the Old Testament (undergraduate class)

Research Interests: Old Testament Prophets; Biblical Ethics; Canon; Biblical Interpretation; Old Testament Theology

Publications:

The Original Story: God Israel and the World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2005.

The Significance of a Fixed Canon of the Hebrew Bible (1996, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of its Interpretation, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, Gottingen & Zurich, Edited by Saebo, M)

The Spirit and the Letter: Studies in the Biblical Canon (1997, SPCK, London)

Historical-critical Approaches (1998, The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation, Cambridge University Press, Edited by Barton, J)

What is a Book? Modern Exegesis and the Literary Conventions of Ancient Israel (1998, Intertextuality in Ugarit and Israel: Papers read at the tenth joint meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and Het Oud Testamentische Wergezelschap in Nederland en Belgie held at Oxford, 1997. Brill, Leiden, Edited by deMoor, J.C.)

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