[PDF] Reading From This Place Social Location And Biblical Interpretation In Global Perspective eBook

Author : Fernando F. Segovia
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
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Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451407884

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Biblical studies are proving to be a test case of the large interpretive issues of how one's "location"--social, cultural, ethnic and gender--affects one's reading of the text and its import. Segovia and Tolbert gather 19 leading biblical interpreters from around the globe to address the complex hermeneutical and religious questions attendant to this paradigm shift.

Author : Craig S. Keener
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1619700093

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This collection of essays from ethnically diverse scholars explores the meaning of non-Western interpretations.

Author : Hans-Peter Geiser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1610976347

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Social postmodernism and systematic theology can be considered the new pair in some of the most creative discussions on the future of theological method on a global scale. Both in the academy and in the public square, as well as in the manifold local and pastoral moments of ministry and community social activism, the social, the postmodern, and the theological intermingle in engaging and border-crossing ways. The Community of the Weak presents a new kind of jazzy fundamental theology with a postmodern touch, using jazz as a metaphor, writing ethnographically messy texts out of the personal windows of lived experiences, combining fragments of autobiography with theological reconstruction. A comparative perspective on North American and European developments in contemporary systematic theology serves as a hermeneutical horizon to juxtapose two continents in their very different contexts. The author proposes a systematic and fundamental theology that is more jazzy, global, and narrative, deeply embedded in pastoral ministry to tell its postmodern story.

Author : David G. Ford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532636822

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In many places in the Western world, churchgoing is in decline and it cannot be assumed that people have a good grasp of the Bible's content. In this evolving situation, how would "the person on the street" read the Bible? Reading the Bible Outside the Church begins to answer this question. David Ford spent ten months at a chemical industrial plant providing non-churchgoing men with the opportunity to read and respond to five different biblical texts. Using an in-depth qualitative methodology, he charts how their prior experiences of religion, sense of (non)religious identity, attitudes towards the Bible, and beliefs about the Bible all shaped the readings that occurred.

Author : Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134677421

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Reading and interpreting the Bible, whether as an 'ordinary' or critical reader, has always been strongly influenced by a person's own experience. They demonstrate the variety of ways in which the Bible can have meaning for different people. The contributors offer challenging new perspectives on the ancient biblical books and individual texts of the Torah, the prophets, the Gospels, (Pauline) letters and Revelation. The Personal Voice in Biblical Scholarship contains the original essays of distinguished Jewish and Christian scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament from all over the world and a variety of backgrounds.

Author : Ian Boxall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1108490921

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This volume provides an up-to-date introduction to the diverse ways the Bible is being interpreted by scholars in the field.

Author : Jean-Pierre Ruiz
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1570759448

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Weaving together a range of 'border' themes - migration, postcolonialism, living in exile, and the immigrant experience - these readings bring fresh new insights to scholars, clergy, and others with backgrounds in contemporary theology and biblical study.

Author : Susanne Scholz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567577082

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This book introduces readers to the diverse field of feminist studies on the Hebrew Bible. Not organized as a traditional introduction to the "Old Testament," the manuscript does not follow a biblical book-by-book structure, but provides an introductory survey of the history and issues as they relate to feminist readings and readers of the Hebrew Bible. Accordingly, feminist scholars of the Bible, their career struggles, and biblical texts, characters, and themes stand in the forefront of this introduction. The volume is biased toward "Western" feminist scholarship because of the historical developments of feminist scholarship in general and biblical studies in particular. Yet, the chapters also include African, Asian, and Latin American perspectives on feminist studies of the Hebrew Bible. In short, the book offers an overview on the historical, social, and academic developments of reading the Hebrew Bible as the "Women's Hebrew Bible."