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Houses of the Interpreter

Houses of the Interpreter Reading Scripture, Reading Culture - Provost Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

David Lyle Jeffrey explores the terrain of the cultural history of biblical interpretation. But Jeffrey does not merely rest content to chart biblical scholarship and how it has both influenced and been influenced by culture. Instead, he chooses to focus upon the "art" of Biblical interpretation -- how sculptors, musicians, poets, novelists, and painters have "read" the Bible. By so doing, Jeffrey clearly demonstrates that such cultural interpretation has deepened the church's understanding of the Bible as Scripture and that, remarkably, this cultural reading has contributed to theology and the practice of faith. Jeffrey's chapters effectively root the theological issues central to any hermeneutical enterprise (e.g., Scriptural authority, narrative, the Old Testament as Christian Scripture, the role of the reader, gender, and postmodernism) in specific authors and artists (eg: Chaucer, Bosch, Sir Orfeo, C.S Lewis) -- and he does this in constant conversation with literature, both eastern and western.

Book information

ISBN: 9780918954893
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Imprint: Baylor University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 220.609
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 464g
Height: 155mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 25mm