The Art of Reading Scripture
Contributors: Ellen F. Davis (Editor); Richard B. Hays (Editor)
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780802812698
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Religion - Biblical Studies; Bible - Study - General; Bibles; Religion; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Biblical Studies - General; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - General; Bible; Hermeneutics
First sentence: One day about six years ago I sat around a table dreaming with a group of theologians, biblical scholars, and scholars in secular disciplines who regularly enter into dialogue between their own disciplines and theology.
Description: "This important book is for a twenty-first-century church that seems to have lost the art of reading the Bible attentively and imaginatively. The Art of Reading Scripture is written by a group of eminent scholars and teachers seeking to recover the church's rich heritage of biblical interpretation in a dramatically changed cultural environment. Asking how best to read the Bible in a post-modern context, the contributors together affirm up front "Nine Theses" that provide substantial guidance for the church. The essays and sermons that follow both amplify and model the approach to Scripture outlined in the Nine Theses."--BOOK JACKET.