Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical HermeneuticsIs the Bible just a book of ancient Israelite and Christian history and practices to be read? Or are we engaging in a more interactive practice when we study God's word? Jeannine K. Brown believes that communication is at the heart of what happens when we open the Bible, that we are actively engaging God in a conversation that can be life changing. By learning about how Scripture communicates, modern readers can extract much more meaning out of the text than they could if simply reading the Bible as though it was a list of rules or a collection of stories. In Scripture as Communication, Brown offers professors, students, church leaders, and laity a basic guide to the theory and practice of biblical interpretation, helping them understand our engagement with Scriptures as primarily a communicative act. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Theoretical Perspectives on Scripture | 17 |
Implications Effects | 100 |
Practical Guidance for Interpreting Scripture | 137 |
The Language of the Bible | 166 |
The Social World of the Bible | 189 |
Literary Context Intertextuality and Canon | 212 |
Conceptualizing Contextualization | 232 |
Understanding Scripture | 252 |
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