Reading Scripture Canonically
Subtitle: theological instincts for Old Testament interpretation
Publisher: Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780801049118
Copyright date: 2019
Description: Veteran Old Testament teacher Mark Gignilliat explores the theological and hermeneutical instincts that are necessary for reading, understanding, and communicating Scripture faithfully. He takes seriously the gains of historical criticism while insisting that the Bible must be interpreted as Christian Scripture, offering students a "third way" that assigns proper proportion to both historical and theological concerns. Reading and engaging Scripture requires not only historical tools, Gignilliat says, but also recognition of the living God's promised presence through the Bible.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : Scripture's material form.; title: Scripture and canon; title: Sanding with the grain : final form and canonical shape; title: Canonical intentionality; title: Canon and textual criticism : the search for the Christian Bible; title: Part two : Scripture's subject matter.; title: God as Triune, and exegetical metaphysics; title: The Trinity and the Old Testament; title: Epilogue