Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
My Perfect One
Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity. In My Perfect One, Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated collection of works of rabbinic literature from...
by Michael C. Legaspi
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies examines the creation of the academic Bible. Beginning with the fragmentation of biblical interpretation in the centuries after the Reformation, Michael Legaspi shows how the weakening of scriptural authority in the Western churches altered the...
Parables for Our Time
Rereading New Testament Scholarship after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Over the centuries, New Testament texts have often been read in ways that reflect and encourage anti-Semitism. For example, the parable of the "wicked husbandmen," who kill the son of their landlord in order to seize the land, has been used to blame the Jews for the death of Christ. Since the Holocaust,...
Time and the Word
Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book by Ephraim Radner constitutes the first significant theological account of the foundations and methods of the figural reading of Scripture. Radner's reintroduces contemporary scholars to a traditional approach to biblical interpretation that dates back to Jewish practice from before the...
Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament
A Book-by-Book Survey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The groundbreaking Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (DTIB) introduced readers to key names, theories, and concepts in the field of biblical interpretation. It has been well received by pastors and students, won book awards from Christianity Today and the Catholic Press Association,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of theological interpretation. Craig Bartholomew, coauthor of the bestselling The Drama of Scripture, and Heath Thomas bring together a team of specialists to articulate a multifaceted vision for returning rigorous biblical interpretation to the context...
Practicing Theological Interpretation (Theological Explorations for the Church Catholic)
Engaging Biblical Texts for Faith and Formation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Much is written about the theory of theological interpretation, but how does it apply to actually working with biblical texts? This volume shows that theological interpretation is not so much an exegetical method as it is a practice concerned with Scripture's role in the faith and formation of persons...
by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly “masculine,” especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms begin with headings linking them to King David. In this volume, Denise Dombkowski Hopkins sets stories about women in the Hebrew Bible alongside Psalms 42–89 as “intertexts”...
by Brian Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
All human experience is not merely subject to interpretation, but is itself interpretation. Moment by moment we evaluate the stimuli and information that our senses provide to our consciousness and make value judgments upon it that direct our subsequent thoughts, words, and actions. From this...
Early Christian Readings of Genesis One
Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Do the writings of the church fathers support a literalist interpretation of Genesis 1? Young earth creationists have maintained that they do. And it is sensible to look to the Fathers as a check against our modern biases. But before enlisting the Fathers as ammunition in our contemporary Christian...
by Edward D. Andrews, R. A. Torrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Expanding on R. A. Torrey's original Difficulties in the Bible, Edward Andrews answers today's most challenging questions raised against the Bible. Taking the most difficult passages of the Bible and addressing them with humility and determination, Andrews sheds light on the biggest stumbling blocks...
BIBLICAL CRITICISM
Beyond the Basics
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Biblical criticism is an umbrella term covering various techniques for applying literary historical-critical methods in analyzing and studying the Bible and its textual content. Biblical criticism is also known as higher criticism, literary criticism, and historical criticism. Biblical criticism has...
MISREPRESENTING JESUS
Debunking Bart D. Ehrman’s “Misquoting Jesus” [Third Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Edward D. Andrews boldly answers the challenges Bart D. Ehrman alleges against the fully inerrant, Spirit-inspired, authoritative Word of God. By glimpsing into the life of Bart D. Ehrman and following along his course of academic studies, Andrews helps the reader to understand the biases, assumptions,...
BASICS OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM
Helpful or Harmful?
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Biblical criticism is an umbrella term covering various techniques for applying literary historical-critical methods in analyzing and studying the Bible and its textual content. Biblical criticism is also known as higher criticism, literary criticism, and historical criticism. Biblical criticism...