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Written by Ian Boxall
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 08:25 |
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Interviewer: What led you did undertake this project?
NK: It wasn’t something I’d planned. When I came back from South Africa in 2001, I had some time on my hands, and decided to translate Mark and John for a summer school I was teaching on. I gave my translation to the class, one of whom happened to be married to a publisher! Eventually the request came: ‘How would you feel about translating the whole Bible?’ Initially I was reluctant, but after reflecting on it for a while, and a certain amount of arm-twisting, I thought: ‘Why not?’
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Written by Ian Boxall
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 15:47 |
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The Use and Abuse of the Bible
(T & T Clark, 2010, 209pp, ISBN 9780567 09057 7)
Interviewer: You are a biblical scholar, not a historian. What led you to embark on this subject?
Dom Henry: One of the features of the Catholic tradition is an interest in the development and use of the Bible down the ages. In the course of the development of the Bible itself texts are used and re-used, acquiring new meanings and resonances. We can’t even pinpoint a particular moment when the text may be held to be the definitive text. Is the Hebrew or the Septuagint the definitive text of the Old Testament? The same is true in the course of the history of the Church. The Bible is used and applied in different ways, and for a Catholic this too is under the inspiration of the Spirit. It can of course also be misapplied, as I would hold it has been misapplied for political purposes by the State of Israel.
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Written by Ian Boxall
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Friday, 12 March 2010 17:38 |
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Recently a collection of essays was published, New Perspectives on the Nativity (T. & T. Clark, 2009). Three of the contributors are members of the British CBA (Henry Wansbrough, Ian Boxall and Nicholas King), as is the editor(Jeremy Corley). The volume includes twelve articles looking at the nativity stories from a variety of viewpoints: historical, literary,feminist, political, cinematic, poetic, liturgical, theological and inter-faith. For more details, see the attachment.
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Written by Ian Boxall
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:50 |
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Take and Read: the Gospels is an excellent new series designed to help people explore the Bible more deeply. The ancient practice of lectio divina, prayerful reading of the Scriptures, has been taken up by many people. Take and Read encourages that prayerful reading of the gospels.
The books can be used both by individuals and by groups gathering to study and pray. Each volume presents twelve passages with explanation, accompanied by quotations from the Fathers and Church documents, Christian art and inspiring photographs, and suggestions for prayer and reflection.
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 20 December 2009 13:00 |
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To coincide with the relaunch of Scripture Bulletin as an online journal, free-of-charge to all readers, a new website has been launched for the Catholic Biblical Association. The site is no longer hosted by Ushaw College but we wish to thank them for their support over the years in hosting the old site. From now on, please use one of the following addresses: cbagb.org.uk to start at the CBA homepage, with latest news about the Association's activities, and scripturebulletin.org.uk to go straight to the current issue of Scripture Bulletin - these are part of the same site, so the address just determines the page which you see first of all (note that the addresses will work if you start with 'www.', but it is strictly unnecessary). If you have saved the old site as a favourite or have a link from your own website, please make sure you update the address. If you know of a site which links to the CBA, please advise the webmaster of the change. |
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