Listening to the Bible by Christopher Bryan
Christopher Bryan reflects on the often-difficult relationship between academic study of the Bible and the Church, and suggests a way forward in which scientific questions are not to be ignored, but in asking them we are not to ignore the texts' setting-in-life, which is and has always been the believing community.
Listening to the Bible: The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation provides an engaging and erudite account of the situation in which Biblical Studies finds itself in relation to the faith community, and makes intriguing suggestions as to how that situation could be resolved * Jem Bloomfield, quiteirregularcom *
He [the author] is not afraid of what empirical analysis may reveal about a text, or the setting in which it may have been written, but asks whether that is the whole story. He uses the insights of literary criticism to show that there is more to a text than the words or the context from which it comes. * The Rt Revd Michael Doe, Church Times *
Recommended. * CHOICE *
It can be rather difficult to take a middling position on a topic and say something fresh. Bryan succeeds. He provides a balanced hermeneutical approach to the Bible as history, literature, and theology. And his reflections on the artistry of the text, thoroughly grounded in theoreticians (from Quintilian to Auerbach to Alter) and literary artists (from Homer to Shakespeare to Sayers), provide a welcome contribution to a long-standing conversation about the Bibles literary quality. * Jeanne K. Brown, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology *
He [the author] is not afraid of what empirical analysis may reveal about a text, or the setting in which it may have been written, but asks whether that is the whole story. He uses the insights of literary criticism to show that there is more to a text than the words or the context from which it comes. * The Rt Revd Michael Doe, Church Times *
Recommended. * CHOICE *
It can be rather difficult to take a middling position on a topic and say something fresh. Bryan succeeds. He provides a balanced hermeneutical approach to the Bible as history, literature, and theology. And his reflections on the artistry of the text, thoroughly grounded in theoreticians (from Quintilian to Auerbach to Alter) and literary artists (from Homer to Shakespeare to Sayers), provide a welcome contribution to a long-standing conversation about the Bibles literary quality. * Jeanne K. Brown, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology *
Christopher Bryan is C.K. Benedict Professor of New Testament (Emeritus) at University of the South and editor of Sewanee Theological Review.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199336593 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199336598 |
| Title | Listening to the Bible |
| Author | Christopher Bryan |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2013-12-12 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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