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The personal voice in biblical interpretation / edited by Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Reader-response criticism.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 al
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The guarded personal voice of a male European-American biblical scholar; My personal voice: The making of a postcolonial critic; The function of the non-fulfilled promises: Reading the Pentateuch from the perspective of the Latin-American oppressed people; Mark's open ending and following Jesus on the way: An autobiographical interpretation of the Gospel of Mark; Fathers and sons: Fragments from an autobiographical midrash on John's Gospel; Reading and sense-experiencing the Gospel of John; An adventure with Nicodemus
- Border crossing and meeting Jesus at the well: An autobiographical re-reading of the Samaritan woman's story in John 4:1 44Reading the Letter to the Galatians from an apartheid and a post-apartheid perspective; My reading of 1 John in Africa; A self-conscious reader-response interpretation of Romans 13:1 7; A re-evaluation of Hosea 1 2: Philology informed by life experience; Revolting Revelations; Name index; Subject index; Biblical index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 200) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-67742-1
- 1-134-67743-X
- 1-280-33228-X
- 0-203-02694-2
- 0-203-15967-5
- 9786610332281
- 9780203026946
- OCLC:
- 56944408
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