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Interpreting the Truth: Changing the Paradigm of Biblical Studies

Interpreting the Truth: Changing the Paradigm of Biblical Studies

Countryman, Louis William

Paperback

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 1563384108
ISBN13: 9781563384103
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 1 2003
Pages: 245
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In order to refocus their work so that it can open out into a three-way conversation between themselves, the scriptural text, and the communities interested in the text, Countryman argues that biblical scholars must abandon the over-dependence on analytical method that they favor. Scholars need to find new ways to bring the complexities of the text and its environment more directly into conversation with the complexities of human communities here and now. Countryman strikes out in new directions by stressing that the conversation with Scripture always calls the interpreter and the community of faith to address realities beyond the text. This book offers a challenge both to biblical scholars and to churches, calling them to work together in reforming and renewing their ways of dealing with Scripture.

L. William Countryman is Sherman E. Johnson Professor in Biblical Studies at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

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