Methods of Biblical Interpretation - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687037069 ISBN 13: 9780687037063

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2004

Synopsis

Foreword by Douglas Knight.

A collection of scholarly essays, originally published in the Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, on various methods and approaches to Biblical interpretation. The essays have been modestly corrected, some bibliographies updated, and several new essays added.

Features and Benefits:

• For use in classrooms in Biblical exegesis.
• Philosophical hermeneutics.
• Cutting-edge scholarship.
• The best in contemporary Biblical scholarship.
• For use as a primer or refresher for Biblical interpretation.
• Excellent tools to refresh pastors on the best methods in modern biblical interpretation.
• Incorporates diversity and pluralism into the various methods of biblical interpretation.

Includes essays on the following approaches to Biblical interpretation:

• Archaeology and Historiography.
• Text Criticism, Languages, and Linguistics.
• Early Jewish Approaches.
• Folklore, Religion, and Myth.
• Source, Form, and Tradition Criticism.
• Literary and Structural/Postmodernist Approaches Methods.
• Theological Approaches.
• Social Science Methods.
• Contextual Approaches.
• Liberation or Ideological Approaches.
• Gender-Based Approaches.
• Quest of the Historical Jesus.
• Psychological Approaches.
  

Many renowned scholars such as the following have contributed essays to this work:

Robert Gnuse
Loyola University New Orleans
Department of Religious Studies
New Orleans, Louisiana

Gale A. Yee
Episcopal Divinity School
Cambridge, MA

Cain Hope Felder
School of Divinity
Howard University
Washington, DC

Kurt Aland
Deceased

John H. Hayes
LaFayette, Alabama

Edition details

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0687037069
• ISBN 13: 9780687037063
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432