Scripture as communication : introducing biblical hermeneutics
Is the Bible just a book of ancient Israelite and Christian history and practices to be read? Or are we engaging in a more interactive practice when we study God's word? Jeannine K. Brown believes that communication is at the heart of what we do when we open the Bible, that we are actively engaging God in a conversation that can be life changing. By learning about how Scripture communicates, modern readers can extract much more meaning out of the text than they could if simply reading the Bible as though it was a list of rules or a collection of stories. In Scripture as Communication, Brown offers professors, students, church leaders, and laity a basic guide to the theory and practice of biblical interpretation, helping them understand our engagement with Scriptures as primarily a communicative act. - Publisher
315 pages ; 23 cm
9780801027888, 0801027888
76183286
Introduction: Scripture as communicative act
Terminology and context for hermeneutics
A communication model of hermeneutics
Authors, texts, readers: historical movements and reactions
Some affirmations about meaning from a communication model
Developing textual meaning: implications, effects, and other ways of going "beyond"
An invitation to active engagement: the reader and the Bible
Genre and communication
The language of the Bible
The social world of the Bible
Literary context, intertextuality, and canon
Conceptualizing contextualization
Contextualization: understanding Scripture incarnationally