Ruled reading and Biblical criticism/ Matthew T. Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Matthew T., 1977- author.

Series:

Journal of theological interpretation supplements

Journal of theological interpretation supplements series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible.

Bible--Reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, 2019.

Summary:

"In Ruled Reading and Biblical Criticism, Matthew T. Bell contends that the gulf in interpretive priorities between ancient and modern readers has been exaggerated and that careful study of early Christian reading practices suggests that it is both possible and productive to recontextualize early Christian “ruled reading” for a postmodern setting.Modern prejudice holds that ancient Christian interpretation was relatively unconcerned with history and concomitantly determined to foist extrascriptural doctrinal commitments onto scripture, silencing those layers of scripture’s meaning that modern criticism has been most concerned with uncovering. In this book, Bell argues that, when the ethos and theology of reading in the early Church are taken into account, premodern interpretive priorities turn out to be less implausible than the modern world has believed them to be. Through close reading of ancient Christian texts, Bell outlines an ontology of scripture wherein the relationship between early Christianity’s “Rule of Faith,” on one hand, and its scriptures, on the other, was expressly constructed as a hermeneutical spiral, the slant of which was designed to attend to and be edified by textually mediated conundrums and intellectual provocations. Viewed along that spiral, the Church’s Rule was as “scriptural” as the Church’s catalog of scriptures was “ruled.”"-- From De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Communion, canon, and the bible of the church

Ontology of scripture and indwelling salvation’s epic (or, whose identity story?)

The legacy of modernity and the methodological (pre?)occupations of a critical age

A case study in “postmodern” ruled reading

Ruled reading in the unfolding epic: concluding reflections on the arts of homily and devotional criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 14, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Ruled reading and Biblical criticism.

ISBN:

9781646023660

1646023668

9781646023677

1646023676

OCLC:

1530783635

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license