Interpreting the Bible: Approaching the Text in Preparation for Preaching

This volume provides preaching students and clergy with introductory knowledge of current approaches and methods in biblical studies, familiarity with the questions and aims that pertain to them, and facility with various methods of biblical exegesis. Approaches to biblical interpretation are then examined in light of the questions and concerns that arise specifically in the context of preaching. Methods of biblical interpretation are reviewed and explained in succinct fashion and related directly to the dynamics that give rise to the sermon and shape exegesis for sermon preparation, namely, the preacher's engagement with the text, the author's context, and the congregation. This volume enables preachers to approach the biblical text with greater clarity.

Mary F. Foskett is Associate Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University. She is the author of A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity (Indiana University Press), and The Moral Teachings of Jesus, and co-editor with Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan of Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation.