Reading the Good Book Well A Guide to Biblical Interpretation

Name: Reading the Good Book Well A Guide to Biblical Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780687642755

ISBN-10: 0687642752

ISBN-13: 9780687642755

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jerry Camery-Hoggatt

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The state of teaching biblical interpretation in colleges and seminaries is generally a mess, and many conventional approaches can be alarming for religious students. The sources of this difficulty are wide ranging, but a quick summary would include at least the following: jargon that is unnecessarily technical; competing and contradictory methodologies; and a failure on the part of Biblical scholarship to demonstrate the direct relevance of its methods to the pastoral life of the Church. As a consequence, biblical scholarship is often opaque at best and distressing at worst to the student and beginning theologian. And because pastors and lay people are trained within this cobweb of…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.12" wide x 8.89" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Preface



The Why of Exegesis: AKA Prolegomena (AKA Preliminary Stuff)



Reading the Bible and Aching for God



It Isn't Just about God; It's also about Garry: The Problem of Hermeneutics



The Bible Says It; I Believe It; That Settles It-Oh, Really?: Introducing Paradigms



Reconstructing the Original Wording: The Discipline of Textual Criticism



Your Version, My Version: Thinking about Translation Theory



The How of Exegesis



The Master Paradigm: An Introduction to Exegesis



How We Fill in Gaps: An Introduction to Schemas



How We Find Out about Schemas: The Discipline of Lexicography



How We Find Out about Cultural Knowledge and Practices: The Discipline of Backgrounds



How We Find Out about Cultural Norms: The Discipline of Social Science



How We Find Out about Genre: The Discipline of Form Criticism



How We Find Out about Historical Contexts: The Discipline of Introduction



How We Disambiguate: Getting to the Gist



How We Recognize Polyvalence: Dealing with Double Exposures



How We Deal with Intertextuality: Dialogues between Texts



How We Deal with Sequence and Pace: Aspects of Literary Criticism



Pulling It All Together



Looking Ahead, Looking Beyond: A Concluding Unacademic Postscript


Notes


Indexes