how 2000 years of biblical interpretation can shed new light on old texts /
First Statement of Responsibility
David Paul Parris.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Second edition.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Eugene :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Wipf and Stock Publishers,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (234 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction -- The first historical horizon : the author and the audience -- Words -- The best fish story ever told -- The second historical horizon : a living tradition -- Tradition as a road map of interpretation -- The third historical horizon : reading within a tradition -- Ten reading strategies -- Reception theory : teaching and preaching -- Appendix: Critically evaluating Internet sources.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Many readers of the Bible believe that interpreting the Scriptures well simply involves a two-way dialogue between themselves and the text. Implied in this view is the idea that we can simply jump over two thousand years of biblical interpretation. However, if we believe that God has been speaking through the Bible to devout believers throughout history it would sem that we should find a way to identify the insights they perceived in the text so that we can learn to read these sacred texts with them. Drawing on resources from 'Reception Theory', the goal of this book is to enable the contemporary reader to interpret the Bible in dialogue with those who have gone before us.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Reading the Bible with Giants : How 2000 Years of Biblical Interpretation Can Shed New Light on Old Texts. Second Edition.
International Standard Book Number
9781625647283
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.-- History.