John Barton

John Barton ist ein angesehener Gelehrter und Autor, der sich auf die Bibelauslegung und das Studium des Alten Testaments spezialisiert hat. Von 1991 bis 2014 war er als Oriel & Laing Professor für die Interpretation der Heiligen Schrift an der Universität Oxford tätig und verfasste bedeutende Werke wie "The Theology of the Book of Amos" und "Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile". Seine akademischen Beiträge haben ihn als führende Autorität im Bereich der theologischen Wissenschaft etabliert.

Bartons Karriere ist tief in Oxford verwurzelt, wo er Theologie am Keble College studierte und einen Doktortitel in alttestamentlichen Studien erwarb. Seine akademische Laufbahn begann er als Dozent für Theologie und Fellow des St Cross College in Oxford von 1974 bis 1991. Seine Forschung konzentriert sich auf prophetische Literatur und die Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift, wobei er historisch-kritische Methoden mit theologischer Untersuchung verbindet. Als Priester der Church of England engagiert er sich auch im Gemeindeleben in Abingdon-on-Thames.

Seit seinem Ruhestand von der Professur im Jahr 2014 setzt Barton seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit als Senior Research Fellow am Campion Hall, einem Jesuitenkolleg in Oxford, fort. Er lebt mit seiner Familie, einschließlich seiner Tochter und zwei Enkelinnen, in Abingdon. Seine lebenslange Hingabe an die Bibelwissenschaft und theologische Bildung unterstreicht seinen bleibenden Einfluss in der akademischen Welt.
Religious Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Amos's Oracles Against The Nations 1980
2 The Scope And Authority Of The Bible 1981
3 Reading The Old Testament 1984
4 Oracles Of God 1986
5 People Of The Book? 1988
6 Biblical Interpretation 1988
7 What Is The Bible? 1992
8 The Future Of Old Testament Study 1993
9 Holy Writings, Sacred Text 1997
10 The Spirit And The Letter 1997
11 Making The Christian Bible 1997
12 How The Bible Came To Be 1998
13 Ethics And The Old Testament 1998
14 Joel And Obadiah 2001
15 Understanding Old Testament Ethics 2003
16 Living Belief 2005
17 The Nature Of Biblical Criticism 2007
18 Discovering Your God-given Identity 2012
19 Ethics In Ancient Israel 2014
20 The Hebrew Bible 2016
21 Love Unknown 2017
22 A History Of The Bible 2019
23 How Did Moses Know He Was A Hebrew? 2021
24 Prayer And The Struggle Against Evil 2021
25 Better Religion 2022
26 Amazing Days Of Grace 2023
27 The Word: On The Translation Of The Bible 2023
Cambridge Companions to Religion Books
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1 The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (By: Colin E. Gunton) 1993
2 The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology (By: Christopher C. Rowland) 1995
3 The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics (By: Robin Gill) 1996
4 The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation 1998
5 The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer (By: John W. de Gruchy) 1999
6 The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin (By: Donald K. McKim) 2000
7 The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth (By: John B. Webster) 2000
8 The Cambridge Companion to Jesus (By: Markus Bockmuehl) 2001
9 The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology (By: Susan Frank Parsons) 2002
10 The Cambridge Companion to St Paul (By: James D.G. Dunn) 2003
11 The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther (By: Donald K. McKim) 2003
12 The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology (By: Kevin J. Vanhoozer) 2003
13 The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar (By: David Moss, Edward T. Oakes) 2004
14 The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology (By: David V.N. Bagchi, David C. Steinmetz) 2004
15 The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (By: Dana Evan Kaplan) 2005
16 The Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner (By: Declan Marmion, Mary E. Hines) 2005
17 The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (By: Jacqueline Mariña) 2005
18 The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels (By: Stephen C. Barton, Todd Brewer) 2006
19 The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān (By: Jane Dammen McAuliffe) 2006
20 The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards (By: Stephen J. Stein) 2006
21 The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (By: Michael L. Morgan, Peter Eli Gordon) 2007
22 The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (By: Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Martin S. Jaffee) 2007
23 The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (By: John Coffey, Paul C. H. Lim) 2008
24 The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits (By: Thomas Worcester) 2008
25 The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (By: Abdal Hakim Murad) 2008
26 The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology (By: Mary B. Cunningham, Elizabeth Theokritoff) 2008
27 The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich (By: Russell Re Manning) 2009
28 The Cambridge Companion to John Henry Newman (By: Ian Ker, Terrence Merrigan) 2009
29 The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley (By: Jason E. Vickers, Randy L. Maddox) 2009
30 The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology (By: Chad Meister, Charles Taliaferro) 2009
31 The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (By: Michael Ward, Robert MacSwain) 2010
32 The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad (By: Jonathan E. Brockopp) 2010
33 The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion (By: Peter Harrison) 2010
34 The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More (By: George M. Logan) 2011
35 The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (By: Anthony J. Parel, Judith M. Brown) 2011
36 The Cambridge Companion to Miracles (By: Graham H. Twelftree) 2011
37 The Cambridge Companion to the Trinity (By: Peter C. Phan) 2011
38 The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi (By: Michael J.P. Robson) 2011
39 The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies (By: Robert A. Orsi) 2011
40 The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology (By: Dwight N. Hopkins, Edward P. Antonio) 2012
41 The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements (By: Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein) 2012
42 The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (By: Amy Hollywood, Patricia Z. Beckman) 2012
43 The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order (By: Mette Birkedal Bruun) 2012
44 The Cambridge Companion to American Islam (By: Omid Safi, Juliane Hammer) 2013
45 The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions (By: Barbette Stanley Spaeth) 2013
46 The Cambridge Companion to American Methodism (By: Jason E. Vickers) 2013
47 The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism (By: Amos Yong, Cecil M. Robeck Jr.) 2014
48 The Cambridge Companion to Sufism (By: Lloyd Ridgeon) 2014
49 The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology (By: Elizabeth Phillips, Craig Hovey) 2015
50 The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology (By: Paul T. Nimmo, David A.S. Fergusson) 2016
51 The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae (By: Denys Turner, Philip McCosker) 2016
52 The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (By: Stephen B. Chapman, Marvin A. Sweeney) 2016
53 The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism (By: James R. Lewis) 2017
54 The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (By: Christine Elizabeth Hayes) 2017
55 The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil (By: Chad Meister, Paul K. Moser) 2017
56 The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism (By: Pink Dandelion, Stephen W. Angell) 2018
57 The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism (By: Margaret M. McGuinness) 2020
58 The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature (By: Colin McAllister) 2020
59 The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' (By: Tarmo Toom) 2020
60 The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature (By: Calum Carmichael) 2020
61 The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II (By: Richard R. Gaillardetz) 2020
62 The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul (By: Bruce W. Longenecker) 2020
63 The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience (By: Chad Meister, Paul K. Moser) 2020
64 The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology (By: Steven Kepnes) 2020
65 The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea (By: Young Richard Kim) 2021
66 The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics (By: C.L. Crouch) 2021
67 The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament (By: Patrick Gray) 2021
68 The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (By: Michael F. Bird, Scott Harrower) 2021
69 The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God (By: S.J. Meconi) 2021
70 The Cambridge Companion to Genesis (By: Bill T. Arnold) 2022
71 The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism (By: Jennifer Woodruff Tait, Jason E. Vickers) 2022
72 The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism (By: Steven Katz) 2022
73 The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature (By: Katherine J Dell, Suzanna R Millar, Arthur Jan Keefer) 2022
74 The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment (By: Alexander J. B. Hampton, Douglas Hedley) 2022
75 The New Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (By: R. Michael Allen) 2022
76 The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation (By: Ian Boxall, Bradley C. Gregory) 2022
77 The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent (By: Nelson H. Minnich) 2023
78 The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible (By: Bruce Wells) 2024
Old Testament Theology Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah (By: Walter Brueggemann) 2006
2 The Theology of the Book of Genesis (By: R.W.L. Moberly) 2009
3 The Theology of the Book of Amos 2012
4 The Theology of the Book of Kings (By: Keith Bodner) 2019
5 The Theology of the Books of Haggai and Zechariah (By: Robert Foster) 2020
Routledge Worlds Books
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1 The Central Asian World (By: Madeleine Reeves, Jeanne Feaux De La Croix) 1970
2 The Greek World (By: Anton Powell) 1995
3 The Reformation World (By: Andrew Pettegree) 2000
4 The Early Christian World (By: Philip F. Esler) 2000
5 The Medieval World (By: Janet L. Nelson, Peter Linehan, Marios Costambeys) 2001
6 The Biblical World 2002
7 The World of Pompeii (By: Pedar Foss, John J. Dobbins) 2007
8 The Egyptian World (By: Toby A.H. Wilkinson) 2007
9 The Viking World (By: Neil Price, Stefan Brink) 2008
10 The Islamic World (By: Andrew Rippin) 2008
11 The Byzantine World (By: Paul Stephenson) 2010
12 The Elizabethan World (By: Susan Doran, Norman L. Jones) 2010
13 The Ottoman World (By: Christine Woodhead) 2011
14 The Atlantic World (By: D'Maris Coffman) 2011
15 The Orthodox Christian World (By: Augustine M. Casiday) 2012
16 The Victorian World (By: Martin Hewitt) 2012
17 The Sumerian World (By: Harriet Crawford) 2012
18 The Celtic World (By: Miranda Green) 2012
19 The Gothic World (By: Glennis Byron) 2013
20 The Etruscan World (By: Jean Macintosh Turfa) 2013
21 The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent (By: Andrew Shankman) 2014
22 The Fin-de-Siècle World (By: Michael Saler) 2014
23 The Occult World (By: Christopher Partridge) 2014
24 The Iberian World: 1450–1820 (By: Antonio Feros, Fernando Bouza Álvarez, Pedro Cardim) 2015
25 The Modernist World (By: Allana C. Lindgren) 2015
26 The Buddhist World (By: John Powers) 2015
27 The Umayyad World (By: Andrew Marsham) 2016
28 The Swahili World (By: Stephanie Wynne-jones, Adria LaViolette) 2017
29 The Shakespearean World (By: Robert Ormsby, Jill L. Levenson) 2017
30 The Elamite World (By: Javier Alvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, Yasmina Wicks) 2018
31 The Gnostic World (By: Jay Johnston, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Garry W. Trompf) 2018
32 The Syriac World (By: Daniel King) 2018
33 The Fairy Tale World (By: Andrew Teverson) 2019
34 The Melanesian World (By: Eric Hirsch, Will Rollason) 2019
35 The Ming World (By: Kenneth M Swope) 2019
36 The Maya World (By: Traci Ardren, Scott R. Hutson) 2020
37 The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (By: Rachel Mairs) 2020
38 The Asante World (By: Edmund Abaka, Kwame Osei Kwarteng) 2021
39 The Safavid World (By: Rudi Matthee) 2021
40 The Tokugawa World (By: Gary P. Leupp, de-Min Tao) 2021
41 The Inuit World (By: Pamela Stern) 2021
42 The World of the Bahá'í Faith (By: Robert H. Stockman) 2021
43 The Mongol World (By: Timothy May) 2022
44 The Sámi World (By: Sanna Valkonen, Áile Aikio, Saara Alakorva, Sigga-Marja Magga) 2022
45 The World of the Ancient Silk Road (By: Xinru Liu) 2022
46 The Ancient Israelite World (By: George A. Pierce, Kyle H Keimer) 2022
47 The Quaker World (By: Rhiannon Grant, C. Wess Daniels) 2022
48 The Siberian World (By: Jenanne Ferguson, Vladimir Davydov, John P Ziker) 2023
49 The Pentecostal World (By: Michael Wilkinson, Jörg Haustein) 2023
50 The Interwar World (By: Andrew Denning, Heidi J.S. Tworek) 2023
The Basics Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Language: The Basics (By: R.L. Trask) 1995
2 The Internet: The Basics (By: Jason Whittaker) 2002
3 Poetry: The Basics (By: Jeffrey Wainwright) 2004
4 The Bible: The Basics 2010
5 Free Will: The Basics (By: Meghan Griffith) 2012
6 Classical Mythology: The Basics (By: Richard Martin) 2016
7 Folklore: The Basics (By: Simon J. Bronner) 2016