After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842270664 ISBN 13: 9781842270660

Publisher: Authentic, 2001

Synopsis

In this rich and creative volume the importance of linguistic issues for biblical interpretation is analyzed, the challenge of postmodernism is explored, and some of the most creative recent developments are assessed and updated.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"There is always some view of language built into biblical interpretation. If we are to read Scripture to hear God's address it is vital that we attend to current debates about language and become critically conscious in this respect." Craig Bartholomew

After Pentecost is the second volume from the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar. This annual gathering of Christian scholars from various disciplines was established in 1998 and aims to reassess the discipline of biblical studies from the foundations up and forge creative new ways for reopening the Bible in our cultures.

The Seminar was aware from the outset that any renewal of biblical interpretation would have to attend to the issue of language. In this rich and creative volume the importance of linguistic issues for biblical interpretation is analysed, the challenge of postmodernism is explored, and some of the most creative recent developments in philosophy and theology of language are assessed and updated for biblical interpretation.

About the Author:

Craig G. Bartholomew (Ph.D., University of Bristol) is H. Evan Runner Chair in Philosophy at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Reading Ecclesiastes: Old Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutical Theory; Ecclesiastes (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series); Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today He is also co-author of The Drama of Scripture and Living at the Crossroads: Introduction to Christian Worldview with Michael W. Goheen. He has also edited In the Fields of the Lord: A Calvin Seerveld Reader and co-edited Christ and Consumerism: A Critical Analysis of the Spirit of the Age. He is the series editor for the Scripture and Hermeneutics Series (8 volumes). The Revd Dr Colin JD Greene (PhD., University of Nottingham) is head of theology and public policy at Bible Society and visiting professor of systematic and philosophical theology at Seattle Pacific University, USA. He is Author of Christology and Atonement in Historical Context. METAVISTA: Exploring the Bible, the Church and mission in an age of imagination and Marking Out the Horizons: Christology in Cultural Perspective. He is consultant editor to the Scripture and Hermeneutics seminar. Karl Moller (PhD in Old Testament at the University of Gloucestershire) is lecturer in theology and religious studies at St. Martin's College, Lancaster, and senior tutor at the Carlisle and Blackburn Diocesan Training Institute. He is the author of A Prophet in Debate: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in the Book of Amos. He has also co-edited Renewing Biblical Interpretation and After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation. He is preparing the forthcoming commentaries Obadiah, Jonah, Micah (Apollos Old Testament Commentary) and The Book of Amos (The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Authentic
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1842270664
• ISBN 13: 9781842270660
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Bartholomew Craig, Greene Colin J D, Moller Karl