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The Art of Reading Scripture
Edited by Ellen F. Davis and Richard B. Hays

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Format: Paperback, 336pp.
ISBN: 0802812694
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date: October 1, 2003

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The difficulty of interpreting the Bible is felt all over today. Is the Bible still authoritative for the faith and practice of the church? If so, in what way? What practices of reading offer the most appropriate approach to understanding Scripture? The church’s lack of clarity about these issues has hindered its witness and mission, causing it to speak with an uncertain voice to the challenges of our time.

This important book is for a twenty-first-century church that seems to have lost the art of reading the Bible attentively and imaginatively. The Art of Reading Scripture is written by a group of eminent scholars and teachers seeking to recover the church’s rich heritage of biblical interpretation in a dramatically changed cultural environment. Asking how best to read the Bible in a postmodern context, the contributors together affirm up front “Nine Theses” that provide substantial guidance for the church. The essays and sermons that follow both amplify and model the approach to Scripture outlined in the Nine Theses.

Lucidly conceived, carefully written, and shimmering with fresh insights, The Art of Reading Scripture proposes a far-reaching revolution in how the Bible is taught in theological seminaries and calls pastors and teachers in the church to rethink their practices of using the Bible.

Contributors:
Gary A. Anderson
Richard Bauckham
Brian E. Daley
Ellen F. Davis
Richard B. Hays
James C. Howell
Robert W. Jenson
William Stacy Johnson
L. Gregory Jones
Christine McSpadden
R. W. L. Moberly
David C. Steinmetz
Marianne Meye Thompson


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This is surely one of the most helpful books on interpreting biblical texts that has come along in a long time. While the authors do not all say the same thing, there is an impressive consistency of interpretive approach that serves to open the Scriptures for the church so that they truly enrich, teach, and illumine the life we live. Postmodernists, historical critics, and theologians here engage in thinking about how to read the Bible in a way that frees it from the captivity of postmodernism, historical criticism, and theology and returns it to the church as its true lifeblood. I especially commend this book to those who are interested in seeing how rich and deep can be a reading of the Bible that is truly done in community.
—Patrick D. Miller


These distinguished scholars go a long way forward toward recovering an exciting and coherent exegetical agenda for reading the Bible as Sacred Scripture.
—Brevard S. Childs


With contributions from major figures across the disciplines, this book offers a superb look at the present state of play for a renewed theological interpretation of Scripture. Especially helpful is its attention — critical and not nostalgic — to the church’s earlier history of interpretation and the place that it might have in the late-modern recovery of theological reading.
—Christopher Seitz


“Theological interpretation,” like a modern-day holy grail, is mentioned often, but claims of actual sightings are both few and exaggerated. Ellen Davis and Richard Hays have given us access to a multidisciplinary conversation concerned with and exemplifying the genuine relocation of the Bible within the church — that is, as authoritative Scripture. The result is a bold, impassioned, open-ended invitation and guide to the craft of reading Scripture. This is must reading for Christian pastors, theological students, exegetes, theologians, and preachers.
—Joel B. Green


 

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Ellen F. Davis is associate professor of Bible and practical theology at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. Richard B. Hays is George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction

Nine Theses on the Interpretation of Scripture


How Do We Read and Teach the Scriptures?

Teaching the Bible Confessionally in the Church
Ellen F. Davis

Scripture’s Authority in the Church
Robert W. Jenson

Reading Scripture as a Coherent Story
Richard Bauckham

Uncovering a Second Narrative: Detective Fiction and the Construction of Historical Method
David C. Steinmetz


A Living Tradition

Is Patristic Exegesis Still Usable? Some Reflections on Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms
Brian E. Daley, SJ

Christ Was like St. Francis
James C. Howell

Reading the Scriptures Faithfully in a Postmodern Age
William Stacy Johnson

Preaching Scripture Faithfully in a Post-Christendom Church
Christine McSpadden

Embodying Scripture in the Community of Faith
L. Gregory Jones


Reading Difficult Texts

Critical Traditioning: Seeking an Inner Biblical Hermeneutic
Ellen F. Davis

Living Dangerously: Genesis 22 and the Quest for Good Biblical Interpretation
R. W. L. Moberly

Joseph and the Passion of Our Lord
Gary A. Anderson

Reading Scripture in Light of the Resurrection
Richard B. Hays

How Can We Know the Truth? A Study of John 7:14-18
R. W. L. Moberly

“His Own Received Him Not”: Jesus Washes the Feet of His Disciples
Marianne Meye Thompson


Selected Sermons

Vulnerability, the Condition of Covenant
Ellen F. Davis

Self-Inflicted Violence
Ellen F. Davis

Prisoner of Hope
Ellen F. Davis

Who Is the God That Will Deliver You?
Richard B. Hays

Netted
Richard B. Hays

Whether We Live or Die, We Are the Lord’s
Richard B. Hays

Selected Bibliography
Scripture Index



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