This volume of essays by distinguished international scholars celebrates and pays tribute to the multifarious contributions to the study of scripture that Henry Wansbrough OSB has made over the last 50 years, in a number of wide-ranging contexts, but most notably as General Editor of the New Jerusalem Bible. The essays answer the title's question in three inter-related areas: interpretation, translation and reception. Wansbrough's academic career has been focused in Oxford where he was Master of St Benet's Hall.Involved in many inter-religious and ecumenical dialogues, he is also a longstanding member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, founded to foster and guide biblical studies. For much of his time on the commission he worked under Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. Finally, as a monk of Ampleforth Abbey, Wansbrough has played a crucial role in scriptural studies for many generations of members of religious communities in the UK and abroad.

Contributors include: John Barton; Willem Beuken SJ; Donald Bolen; Kevin Cathcart; James D. G. Dunn; Susan Gillingham; Mark Goodacre; Nicholas King SJ; Henry Mayr-Harting; John Muddiman; Wulstan Peterburs OSB; Adrian Schenker OP; Francesca Stavrakopoulou; Michael Tait; Albert Vanhoye SJ; Olivier-Thomas Venard OP; Benedicta Ward SLG; Bishop Kallistos Ware of Diokleia and John Webster.

Inhalt

Preface
Introduction
Part I.- Textual Interpretation

1. Leuven Should Philistea go on Wailing? The Enduring Tenor of a Prophetic Oracle Concerning an Age-Old Hostile Nation (Isa 14,28-32)- W. Beuken S.J., Katholieke Universiteit
2. Was Psalm 91 Composed as a Talisman or an Incantation?- K. Cathcart, University College, Dublin
3. The Lucan Composition of the Ten Lepers- M. Goodacre, University of Birmingham, UK
4. Poles or Mercy Seat? The Ark in Solomon's Temple, 1 Kings 8:6-8, in the Hebrew and Greek Bible- A. Schenker O.P., UniversitT de Fribourg
5. Ancestral Advocacy and Dynastic Dynamics in the Book of Kings- F. Stavrakopoulou, Pembroke College, Oxford
6. Rome The Problematic Reception of Pistij in Rom 12:3, 6- A. Vanhoye S.J., Pontificio Istituto Biblico
   Part II- Translation as Interpretation
7. The translator as Interpreter- N. King S.J., Campion Hall, Oxford
8. Making sense of Romans- J. Muddiman, Mansfield College, Oxford
9. CruditTs Anglaises: on the translation of indelicacy in the Book of Wisdom- M. Tait, Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Rome
10. The Cultural Background and Challenges of La Bible de Jerusalem- O.-T. Venard O.P., Cole Biblique et ArchTologique, Jerusalem
    Part III- Interpretation within Ecclesial Communities
11. Oxford Two Types of Harmonization- J. Barton, Oriel College
12. The Reception of Scripture in the Agreed Statements of ARCIC- D. Bolen, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Rome
13. Living Tradition -J.D.G. Dunn, University of Durham, UK.
14. Power and Powerlessness in the Psalms- S. Gillingham, Worcester College, Oxford
15. Prayer and the Bible in Twelfth-Century England- H. Mayr-Harting, Christ Church, Oxford
16. Scripture and Tradition in Newman's Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine- W. Peterburs O.S.B., Ampleforth Abbey, York
17. Bede, the Bible, and the North- B. Ward S.L.G., Harris Manchester College, Oxford
18. On the Unity of Scripture and Tradition: an Orthodox Approach- K. Ware, Bishop of Diokleia
19. Karl Barth and his The Epistle to the Romans- J. Webster, University of Aberdeen
20. Coda: Henry Wansbrough in Israel- N. King S.J, Campion Hall, Oxford
21. As Yet Unknown Brief Vita of Dom- Henry Wansbroug