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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Packaging the Word of God in America Today | |
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| Hyperspecific Features | |
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| Translations | |
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| The Bible Plus: Study Notes, Life Application, and Other Supplementary Materials | |
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| Individual Expert Interpreters | |
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| Groups of "Expert" Interpreters | |
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| Modernist Interpretive Strategies | |
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| Canon and Scriptural Authority | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Different Ways of Reading: Promises and Pitfalls | |
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| Premodern Approaches | |
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| Promises and Pitfalls of Premodern Interpretation | |
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| Modernist Approaches | |
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| Promises and Pitfalls of Modernist Approaches | |
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| Postmodern Approaches | |
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| Emergent Churches as a Postmodern Case Study | |
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| Promises and Pitfalls of Postmodern Approaches | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Four Gospels: Problem or Gift? | |
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| To Harmonize or Not to Harmonize? | |
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| To Harmonize | |
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| The Facts about Mary Magdalene (According to the Bible) | |
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| Mary Magdalene in Matthew | |
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| Mary Magdalene in Mark | |
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| Mary Magdalene in Luke | |
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| Mary Magdalene in John | |
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| Mary Magdalene: An Anointing Prostitute? NOT! | |
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| The Anointings | |
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| Anointing in Matthew | |
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| Anointing in Mark | |
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| Anointing in Luke | |
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| Anointing in John | |
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| The Named Marys | |
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| Marys in Matthew | |
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| Marys in Mark | |
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| Marys in Luke | |
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| Marys in John | |
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| Seven Last Words from the Cross | |
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| Not to Harmonize | |
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| Questions of Genre | |
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| Story? | |
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| History? | |
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| An Exercise: Big Fish | |
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| Both/And/And/And: Four Senses of Scripture | |
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| The Synoptic Problem | |
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| Jesus' Baptism | |
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| Jesus' Rejection in His Own Hometown | |
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| Jesus' Stilling of the Storm | |
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| Jesus' Walking on the Water | |
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| Proposed Solutions to the Synoptic Problem | |
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| Two-Source Hypothesis | |
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| Griesbach Hypothesis (or the Two-Gospel Hypothesis) | |
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| The Farrer Hypothesis | |
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| Form Criticism and Redaction Criticism | |
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| Summary | |
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| John, the Maverick Gospel? | |
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| Important Issues Raised | |
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| I Love to TELL (Not Write) the Story, For Some Have Never Heard (Not Read) | |
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| Q Questions and Critiques | |
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| Dear John | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Authorship Issues: The Pauline Trajectory | |
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| What Did Paul Write? | |
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| Eschatology | |
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| Jewish-Christian Relations in Paul | |
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| Gender Issues | |
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| Church Offices | |
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| Questions Raised Thus Far | |
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| Why Might Someone Write in Paul's Name? Isn't That Dishonest? | |
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| If Paul Didn't Write These Texts, Who Did? | |
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| Is It Important to Ponder Whether Paul Wrote Them or Not? | |
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| If Paul Didn't Write Them, Do They Count as Less Authoritative than Paul's Own Writings? | |
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| Formation of the Christian Canon | |
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| From Talk to Text | |
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| Use | |
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| Apostolicity | |
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| "Rule of Faith" (Regula Fidei) | |
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| Canon and Scriptural Authority | |
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| When We Say that the Bible Is Authoritative, What Do We Mean? | |
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| What about Other Books of the Bible? | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Historical Jesus Debate | |
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| The First Quest | |
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| Jesus: Apocalyptic or Not? | |
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| The New Quest | |
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| The Third Quest | |
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| The Jesus Seminar | |
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| Academic Considerations | |
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| Theological Considerations | |
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| E. P. Sanders | |
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| John Dominic Crossan | |
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| John P. Meier | |
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| Gerd Theissen | |
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| Marcus Borg | |
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| Summary | |
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| Puzzlements | |
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| Where Are the Missing Voices? | |
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| Where Is the Gospel of John? | |
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| Recurring Issues | |
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| Questions, Hackles, and Warnings Raised by the Quests | |
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| Does the Historical Jesus Really Matter for Christian Faith? | |
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| "Buddy Jesus": The Domestication of the Savior of the World | |
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| Resist the Tabloids: Choose the Narrow Gate and/or Ask Scholars to Widen It | |
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| Does W(hat) W(ould) J(esus) D(o) Matter? | |
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| Continuity/Discontinuity | |
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| Jesus' Self-Understanding | |
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| Capacious Dialogue | |
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| History and Theology | |
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| Christology | |
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| Eschatology | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Politics of Biblical Interpretation | |
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| Feminist Biblical Interpretation: A Tale of Two Eliz(s)abeths | |
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| Queer Commentary | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Postcolonialism | |
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| Disability Theory and Biblical Interpretation | |
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| Summary | |
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| An Exercise in Ideology Criticism | |
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| The Residence of Meaning(s): Authors, Texts, Readers | |
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| Authors? | |
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| Texts? | |
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| Readers and Reading Communities? | |
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| You, the Reader(s) | |
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| Hermeneutical Self-Inventory | |
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| A Canon within a Canon? | |
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| Sample Exercise: Matthew 15:21-28 | |
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| Power and Accountability in Biblical Interpretation | |
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| Scripture Index | |
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| Subject Index | |