Art of Reading Scripture

Name: Art of Reading Scripture
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ISBN: 9780802812698

ISBN-10: 0802812694

ISBN-13: 9780802812698

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ellen F. Davis, Richard B. Hays

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Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/2/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. She is the author of Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth Through Image and Text; Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs and Getting Involved with God; and Imagination Shaped.



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Abbreviations


Introduction


Nine Theses on the Interpretation of Scripture


How Do We Read and Teach the Scriptures?


Teaching the Bible Confessionally in the Church



Scripture's Authority in the Church



Reading Scripture as a Coherent Story



Uncovering a Second Narrative: Detective Fiction and the Construction of Historical Method



A Living Tradition


Is Patristic Exegesis Still Usable? Some Reflections on Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms



Christ Was like St. Francis



Reading the Scriptures Faithfully in a Postmodern Age



Preaching Scripture Faithfully in a Post-Christendom Church



Embodying Scripture in the Community of Faith



Reading Difficult Texts


Critical Traditioning: Seeking an Inner Biblical Hermeneutic



Living Dangerously: Genesis 22 and the Quest for Good Biblical Interpretation



Joseph and the Passion of Our Lord



Reading Scripture in Light of the Resurrection



How Can We Know the Truth? A Study of John 7:14-18



"His Own Received Him Not": Jesus Washes the Feet of His Disciples



Selected Sermons


Vulnerability, the Condition of Covenant



Self-Inflicted Violence



Prisoner of Hope



Who Is the God That Will Deliver You?



Netted



Whether We Live or Die, We Are the Lord's



Selected Bibliography


Scripture Index