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Listening to the Bible

Listening to the Bible

The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation

by Christopher Bryan and David Landon
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/12/2013

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The disengagement of recent academic biblical study from church and synagogue has been widely noted, even by those within the discipline. In Listening to the Bible Christopher Bryan addresses scholars and students who would like to pursue biblical studies in relation to the practice and mission of faith, while also confronting the challenges of the Enlightenment. Is such a combination still possible? And if so, how is the task of biblical interpretation to
be understood?Bryan traces the history of modern approaches to the Bible, particularly historical criticism, noting its successes and failures. Basing his work on a wide knowledge of
literature and literary critical theory, and drawing on the insights of the greatest literary critics of the last hundred years, notably Erich Auerbach and George Steiner, Bryan asks: what should be the task of the biblical scholar in the 21st century? Setting the question within this wider context enables Bryan to indicate a series of criteria with which biblical interpreters may do their work, and in the light of which there is no reason why that work cannot relate faithfully to the Church.
This does not mean that sound biblical interpretation can ignore the specificity of scientific or historical questions, or dragoon its results into conformity with a set of ecclesial propositions. Bryan
argues, however, that interpreters of biblical text cannot ignore its existence in the community of faith; and that although textual interpretation has scientific elements, it is, ultimately, an exercise in imagination.In the book's final chapter, actor-director David Landon explores some techniques of oral delivery of scripture.
ISBN:
9780199336593
9780199336593
Category:
Biblical studies & exegesis
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-12-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
145x211x23mm
Weight:
0.32kg

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