Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama
Murderous Texts
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings...
Sensing the Scriptures
Aminadab's Chariot and the Predicament of Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
This book explores the ways that Christians, from the period of late antiquity through the Protestant Reformation, interpreted the Bible according to its several levels of meaning. Using the five bodily senses as an organizing principle, Karlfried Froehlich probes key theological developments, traditions,...
BASICS OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM
Helpful or Harmful?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The term criticism can either be viewed in a negative light as most would expect, but also in a positive light as well. The negative is "a spoken or written opinion or judgment of what is wrong or bad about somebody or something." The positive is simply the assessment of something, be it a car, a...
Reading Scripture with the Church
Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Theological interpretation of the Bible is key to the health and vitality as well as the belief and practice of the church. Just how it is done has been the subject of much discussion and debate over the centuries. In Reading Scripture with the Church, four leading biblical scholars make the case...
The Virtuous Reader (Studies in Theological Interpretation)
Old Testament Narrative and Interpretive Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Biblical interpretation expert Richard S. Briggs presents a rich and thought-provoking portrait, or series of portraits, of the kind of character most needed to be a good reader of the Old Testament. He highlights the moral character or virtues most appropriate to the varied tasks of reading the Old...
The Hermeneutical Spirit
Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In the contemporary biblical studies climate, proposals regarding the theological interpretation of Scripture are contested, particularly but not only because they privilege, encourage, and foster ecclesial or other forms of normative commitments as part and parcel of the hermeneutical horizon through...
The Fall and the Ascent of Man
How Genesis Supports Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
In this groundbreaking work, Joseph Fitzpatrick challenges the traditional interpretation of chapter three of Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve in Eden. This narrative was imposed on the Christian West, but not the East, through the genius of Augustine of Hippo and came to dominate Catholic and Protestant...
Understanding Biblical Criticism
What It Is * What It Does * Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The term “biblical criticism” simply means discerning the most accurate text of the Bible (“textual criticism”) and then exploring issues such as who wrote the various books of the Bible, when they were written, and the circumstances of the writing (“higher criticism”). Yet because the word...
Biblical Interpretation
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
This comprehensive exploration of the interpretive process, now available in paperback, has served as a successful textbook. It focuses on the three "worlds" of biblical interpretation--the world of the author, the world of the text, and the world of the reader--to help students develop...
Nomadic Text
A Theory of Biblical Reception History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Brennan W. Breed claims that biblical interpretation should focus on the shifting capacities of the text, viewing it as a dynamic process rather than a static product. Rather than seeking to determine the original text and its meaning, Breed proposes that scholars approach the production, transmission,...
The Future of Biblical Interpretation
Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
How should we expect multiple interpretations of the Bible to be kept in check? Each of the contributors, experts in the field, considers one parameter of responsibility, which may act as a constraint on the validity of competing biblical interpretations. Stanley E. Porter considers theological resposibility;...
Theological Introduction to the Pentateuch, A
Interpreting the Torah as Christian Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In this concise volume, a team of fresh Old Testament voices explores the theological dimensions of the Pentateuch and provides specific examples of critically engaged theological interpretation. This Pentateuch text is unique in that it emphasizes theological reading, serving as an affordable supplement...
by Marcus Dods
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
How should the words of Jesus be taken? Literally? Figuratively? Somewhere in between? Many Christians have been confused by the strangeness of many of Jesus' commands, by the apparent extremism that they seem to promote.
The words of Jesus as we have them recorded for us in the four Gospels have...
The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture
What the Early Church Can Teach Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
What is true of Scripture as a result of being inspired? What should divine inspiration cause us to expect from it? The answers to these questions in the early church related not just to the nature of Scripture's truth claims but to the manner in which Scripture was to be interpreted.
In this...