This book represents different trajectories through the complex world of biblical interpretation and asks students to think like critical biblical interpreters. It provides students with the means to address biblical questions with skill and sophistication.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction -- An Issue of Distance -- Two Religions, One Set of Texts -- A Matter of Method -- From a Hunch to a Hypothesis -- What About Language? -- To Hear and to See -- Be It History or Literature? -- The Bible: A Book or a Library? -- Like an Ever-flowing Stream -- Let's Just Read It Literally -- What Is Truth? Fact, Myth, and Moral Critique -- This Canon Has One "N" -- The Three Legs of Interpretation -- A Question of Purity -- Digging in the Text and in the Dirt -- The Bible and the Examined Life