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
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Amos's Oracles Against The Nations
1980
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The Scope And Authority Of The Bible
1981
3
Reading The Old Testament
1984
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Oracles Of God
1986
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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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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (By: Colin E. Gunton)
1993
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The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology (By: Christopher C. Rowland)
1995
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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics (By: Robin Gill)
1996
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The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
1998
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The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer (By: John W. de Gruchy)
1999
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The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin (By: Donald K. McKim)
2000
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The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth (By: John B. Webster)
2000
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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
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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
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The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (By: Dana Evan Kaplan)
2005
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The Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner (By: Declan Marmion, Mary E. Hines)
2005
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The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (By: Jacqueline Mariña)
2005
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels (By: Stephen C. Barton, Todd Brewer)
2006
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The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān (By: Jane Dammen McAuliffe)
2006
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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards (By: Stephen J. Stein)
2006
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (By: Michael L. Morgan, Peter Eli Gordon)
2007
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The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (By: Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Martin S. Jaffee)
2007
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The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (By: John Coffey, Paul C. H. Lim)
2008
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The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits (By: Thomas Worcester)
2008
25
The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (By: Abdal Hakim Murad)
2008
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The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology (By: Mary B. Cunningham, Elizabeth Theokritoff)
2008
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The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich (By: Russell Re Manning)
2009
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The Cambridge Companion to John Henry Newman (By: Ian Ker, Terrence Merrigan)
2009
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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
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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
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The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism (By: James R. Lewis)
2017
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The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (By: Christine Elizabeth Hayes)
2017
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The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil (By: Chad Meister, Paul K. Moser)
2017
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The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism (By: Pink Dandelion, Stephen W. Angell)
2018
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The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism (By: Margaret M. McGuinness)
2020
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The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature (By: Colin McAllister)
2020
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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' (By: Tarmo Toom)
2020
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The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature (By: Calum Carmichael)
2020
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The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II (By: Richard R. Gaillardetz)
2020
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The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul (By: Bruce W. Longenecker)
2020
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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience (By: Chad Meister, Paul K. Moser)
2020
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology (By: Steven Kepnes)
2020
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The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea (By: Young Richard Kim)
2021
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The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics (By: C.L. Crouch)
2021
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The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament (By: Patrick Gray)
2021
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The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (By: Michael F. Bird, Scott Harrower)
2021
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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God (By: S.J. Meconi)
2021
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The Cambridge Companion to Genesis (By: Bill T. Arnold)
2022
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The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism (By: Jennifer Woodruff Tait, Jason E. Vickers)
2022
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The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism (By: Steven Katz)
2022
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The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature (By: Katherine J Dell, Suzanna R Millar, Arthur Jan Keefer)
2022
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The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment (By: Alexander J. B. Hampton, Douglas Hedley)
2022
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The New Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (By: R. Michael Allen)
2022
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The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation (By: Ian Boxall, Bradley C. Gregory)
2022
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The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent (By: Nelson H. Minnich)
2023
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The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible (By: Bruce Wells)
2024
Old Testament Theology Books
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The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah (By: Walter Brueggemann)
2006
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The Theology of the Book of Genesis (By: R.W.L. Moberly)
2009
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The Theology of the Book of Amos
2012
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The Theology of the Book of Kings (By: Keith Bodner)
2019
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The Theology of the Books of Haggai and Zechariah (By: Robert Foster)
2020
Routledge Worlds Books
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The Central Asian World (By: Madeleine Reeves, Jeanne Feaux De La Croix)
1970
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The Greek World (By: Anton Powell)
1995
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The Reformation World (By: Andrew Pettegree)
2000
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The Early Christian World (By: Philip F. Esler)
2000
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The Medieval World (By: Janet L. Nelson, Peter Linehan, Marios Costambeys)
2001
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The Biblical World
2002
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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
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The Sumerian World (By: Harriet Crawford)
2012
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The Celtic World (By: Miranda Green)
2012
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The Gothic World (By: Glennis Byron)
2013
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The Etruscan World (By: Jean Macintosh Turfa)
2013
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The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent (By: Andrew Shankman)
2014
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The Fin-de-Siècle World (By: Michael Saler)
2014
23
The Occult World (By: Christopher Partridge)
2014
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The Iberian World: 1450–1820 (By: Antonio Feros, Fernando Bouza Álvarez, Pedro Cardim)
2015
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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
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The Shakespearean World (By: Robert Ormsby, Jill L. Levenson)
2017
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The Elamite World (By: Javier Alvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, Yasmina Wicks)
2018
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The Gnostic World (By: Jay Johnston, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Garry W. Trompf)
2018
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The Syriac World (By: Daniel King)
2018
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The Fairy Tale World (By: Andrew Teverson)
2019
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The Melanesian World (By: Eric Hirsch, Will Rollason)
2019
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The Ming World (By: Kenneth M Swope)
2019
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The Maya World (By: Traci Ardren, Scott R. Hutson)
2020
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The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (By: Rachel Mairs)
2020
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The Asante World (By: Edmund Abaka, Kwame Osei Kwarteng)
2021
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The Safavid World (By: Rudi Matthee)
2021
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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
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The Mongol World (By: Timothy May)
2022
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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
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The Ancient Israelite World (By: George A. Pierce, Kyle H Keimer)
2022
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The Quaker World (By: Rhiannon Grant, C. Wess Daniels)
2022
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The Siberian World (By: Jenanne Ferguson, Vladimir Davydov, John P Ziker)
2023
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The Pentecostal World (By: Michael Wilkinson, Jörg Haustein)
2023
50
The Interwar World (By: Andrew Denning, Heidi J.S. Tworek)
2023
The Basics Books
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Language: The Basics (By: R.L. Trask)
1995
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The Internet: The Basics (By: Jason Whittaker)
2002
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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)