Burchard of Mount Sion, O. P.: Descriptio Terrae Sanctae

ISBN-13: 9780198789512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 528 str.

John R. Bartlett

Recenzje

Burchard's work, in all its detail, is now what we must examine and study as a totality. Its value to the history of the reception of the bible along with its significance in the history of the use of the bible within theology in that crucial period before the Reformation is now, quite literally, immense. Bartlett's work will be used by the various groups who are familiar with Burchard: they will all be glad to have a new edition, both versions in one volume, and the detail of the learned notes.

O autorze

John R. Bartlett was educated at Bury Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, and held a number of positions at Trinity College, Dublin throughout his teaching career. He was Principal of the Church of Ireland Theological College from 1989 until his retirement in 2001. He was President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 2002, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2005. He worked as a site supervisor on K. M. Kenyon's excavations in Jerusalem in 1962, on C. M. Bennett's excavations in Buseirah, Jordan in 1973 and 1974, and as a member of J. M. Miller's survey of the Kerak Plateau, Jordan in 1979 and 1982. Bartlett's academic publications have mostly been concerned with the history and geography of kingdoms in Jordan in biblical times, and with the Maccabaean period, with particular interest in the identification of biblical sites.