Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture (Provost Series) - Softcover

Jeffrey, David Lyle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602582394 ISBN 13: 9781602582392

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In Houses of the Interpreter, David Lyle Jeffrey explores the terrain of the cultural history of biblical interpretation. But Jeffrey does not merely rest content to chart biblical scholarship and how it has both influenced and been influenced by culture. Instead, he chooses to focus upon the "art" of Biblical interpretation--how sculptors, musicians, poets, novelists, and painters have "read" the Bible. By so doing, Jeffrey clearly demonstrates that such cultural interpretation has deepened the church's understanding of the Bible as Scripture and that, remarkably, this cultural reading has contributed to theology and the practice of faith. Jeffrey's chapters effectively root the theological issues central to any hermeneutical enterprise (e.g., Scriptural authority, narrative, the Old Testament as Christian Scripture, the role of the reader, gender, and postmodernism) in specific authors and artists (e.g., Chaucer, Bosch, Sir Orfeo, C. S. Lewis)--and he does this in constant conversation with literature, both eastern and western.

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About the Author

David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities and Provost at Baylor University. Jeffrey earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is the author or editor of 12 books including A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature (1992) and People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (1996).

Edition details

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602582394
• ISBN 13: 9781602582392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300