James J Barr

Fundamentalism

James Barr has never been an uncontroversial writer, and this book, eirenic though its purpose was, has proved no exception. It was widely noticed on its first appearance and led to a lively discussion, not least in evangelical circles. At the same time it was welcomed by reviewers as an important c...

A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East

In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; Francois Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. The deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entent...

Escaping from Fundamentalism

This is a pastoral rather than a controversial book. Its main aim is not to show fundamentalists that they are wrong, but rather to help those who have grown up in the world of fundamentalism or have become committed to it but in the end have come to feel that it is a prison from which they must esc...

The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality

In this book, Professor Barr presents a reading of the story of the Garden of Eden, not as a tale of the origins of sin and death, but as a tale of a chance of immortality, briefly accessible to humanity but quickly lost. Old Testament scholars have long been aware that the traditional reading of th...

Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918

Greed and intrigue combine explosively in this gripping tale of how the mercurial Lawrence of Arabia changed the Middle East forever. It was T. E. Lawrence’s classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom that made the Arab Revolt a legend and helped turn the British intelligence officer into the mythical “Lawrenc...

A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948

“A provocative history . . . helps us to understand why the Arab spring is so important and valuable.”―David Ignatius, National Interest In the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the ...

The Semantics of Biblical Language:

Behind the academic and innocently descriptive title of this book is to be found one of the most explosive works of biblical scholarship to be published this century. Certainly many of those who read it on its firs appearance were never the same again, and it signalled the end of what had hitherto b...

Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism

The Sprunt Lectures delivered at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, February 1982.The men of the Bible did not themselves have a Bible to be their supreme guide and authority. This book discusses the way in which the canon of scripture was formed and the effects that it has.

Building and Flying Model Aircraft

Building and Flying Model Aircraft

The Hanging at Silver Junction

The Bible in the Modern World

The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible: The Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archeology, 1986

Biblical Faith and Natural Theology: The Gifford Lectures for 1991 Delivered in the University of Edinburgh

Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism/Import

Biblical Faith and Natural Theology: The Gifford Lectures for 1991 Delivered in the University of Edinburgh

James Barr

James Barr may refer to: James Barr (author), who writes mainly on the Middle East; James Barr (Presenter) radio and television presenter in the UK; James Barr...

James Barr (biblical scholar)

James Barr FBA (20 March 1924 14 October 2006) was a Scottish Old ... In turn, Barr's student Moiss Silva built on Barr's work in Biblical Words and Their...