Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception

The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception ( EBR ) is a biblical reference work that has been published since 2009, which pays special attention to the reception of the Bible in Judaism and Christianity.

meaning

The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception is published by Walter de Gruyter . Its unique selling point is the programmatic, detailed treatment of the reception history, which is already mentioned in the title. The EWC thus fills a gap between purely biblical reference works such as the Anchor Bible Dictionary and the Theological Dictionary on the Old Testament on the one hand and theological reference works such as the Lexicon for Theology and Church or the Theological Real Encyclopedia on the other. Rudolf Smend called the list of editors and editors in his review of the first two volumes “completely international, interdisciplinary, interdenominational and cross-directional. It also shows impressively how little can be said of a European, German and Christian dominance in these fields and how easily English has become the general language of science here too ”.

editor

There are separate main editors for five subject areas, who have already changed positions in the first ten years. There are currently two main editors for the Hebrew Bible and one for each of the other subject areas.

• Hebrew Bible : Choon-Leong Seow (up to vol. 12), Thomas Chr. Römer (from vol. 13)
  Hermann Spieckermann (up to vol. 7), Steven L. McKenzie (from vol. 8)
• New Testament : Hans-Josef Klauck (up to vol. 6); Dale C. Allison (vol. 7-14); Jens Schröter (from vol. 15)
• Judaism : Barry Dov Walfish ; Paul Mendes-Flohr (up to vol. 3)
• Christianity : Bernard McGinn (up to vol. 3), Volker Leppin (vol. 4–12), Christine Helmer (from vol. 13)
• Reception story: Eric Ziolkowski

In addition to the main editors, there are around 30 specialist editors ( Area Editors ) and now well over 1000 authors.

Frequency of publication

The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception is published by Walter de Gruyter in parallel in print and online. The online edition contains the articles in html text as well as the option to download the individual articles in the print layout. In the print edition there are 16 picture panels with illustrations and maps that are missing in the online edition.

Overview of the volumes

• Vol. 1 (2009): Vol. 1: Aaron - Aniconism . XXXIV S. u. 1224 col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018355-9
• Vol. 2 (2009): Anim - Atheism . XXVI S., 1208 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018370-2
• Vol. 3 (2011): Athena - Birkat ha-Minim . XXVIII S., 1224 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018371-9
• Vol. 4 (2012): Birsha - Chariot of Fire . XXVIII S., 1198 Sp., Plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018372-6
• Vol. 5 (2012): Charisma - Czaczkes . XXVII S., 1230 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018373-3
• Vol. 6 (2013): Dabbesheth - Dreams and Dream interpretation. XXVII S., 1230 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018374-0
• Vol. 7 (2013): Dress - Essene Gate . XXVII S., 1214 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018375-7
• Vol. 8 (2014): Essenes - Fideism . XXVI S., 1200 col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018376-4
• Vol. 9 (2014): Field - Gennezareth . XXVIII S., 1212 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018377-1
• Vol. 10 (2015): Genocide - Hakkoz . XXVIII S., 1216 Sp., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-018378-8
• Vol. 11 (2015): Halah - Hizquni . XXIX S., 1202 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-031328-4
• Vol. 12 (2016): Ho Tsun-sheen - Insuit . 16 pp., 1222 col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-031329-1
• Vol. 13 (2016): Integrity - Jesuit Order . xxviii S., 1158 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-031330-7
• Vol. 14 (2017): Jesus - Kairos . xxvii S., 1236 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-031331-4
• Vol. 15 (2017): Kalam - Lectio Divina . xxix p., 1220 col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-031332-1
• Vol. 16 (2018): Lectionary - Lots . xxvii S., 1258 Col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-031333-8
• Vol. 17 (2019): Lotus - Masrekah . xxviii pages, 1282 col., 16 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-031334-5

Reviews

• Rudolf Smend : Review of Volumes 1-2. In: Theologische Literaturzeitung (ThLZ) 136 (2011), Sp. 269–271.
• Bernd Janowski : Review of volumes 3–5. In: ThLZ 139 (2014), Col. 439-442.
• Bernd Janowski: Review of volumes 6–8. In: ThLZ 140 (2015), Sp. 1206-1209.
• Bernd Janowski: Review of volumes 9–11. In: ThLZ 141 [2016], Sp. 1061-1064.
• Markus Witte : Review of volumes 12-14. In: ThLZ 143 (2018), Sp. 879-881.

See also

• List of specialty encyclopedias

Web links

• EWC on the publisher's website
• Online access via DBIS to the full text in selected libraries

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Smend : Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Vol. 1: Aaron - Aniconism. Vol. 2: Anim - Atheism. Review in: ThLZ 136 (2011), pp. 269–271.
2. ↑ Editorial Board (overview on the publisher's homepage, PDF).
3. ↑ User Guide German (on the publisher's homepage, PDF).