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Designed for both Hebrew and non-Hebrew students, A Handbook to Old Testament Exegesis offers a fresh, hands-on introduction to exegesis of the Old Testament. William P. Brown begins not with the biblical text itself but with the reader, helping stud...

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A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics

By David Jasper

Hermeneutics defines the rules used to search out the meaning of Scripture. Throughout church history, interpreters have approached biblical interpretation in different ways, using different tools and methods. This book conveniently and accessibly su...

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Chasing the Eastern Star
Adventures in Biblical Reader-Response Criticism

By Mark Allan Powell

Emphasizing meaning as "effect" rather than merely "message," Mark Allan Powell shows how biblical texts may legitimately take on multiple meanings in a variety of contexts. The first part of the book uses examples drawn from popular literature and c...

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Engaging Biblical Authority
Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture

By William P. Brown

Is the Bible infallible as some churches claim? Is it a historical document or a piece of literature, as scholars suggest? This helpful new book offers a brief introduction to the question of biblical authority, using essays by sixteen scholars who u...

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Ethics of Biblical Interpretation
A Reevaluation

By Daniel Patte

Daniel Patte argues here that when male European-American scholars interpret the Bible to produce a universally legitimate reading, they silence the Bible itself. Their reading practices exclude feminist, African American, and other so-called "minori...

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Figured Out
Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture

By Christopher R. Seitz

All of our attempts to find the historical backgrounds to texts have led us to believe that we have "figured out" the Bible. Steering a course between modernity's obsession with historical readings and fundamentalism's compulsion for ahistorical read...

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Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives

By Letty M. Russell, Phyllis Trible

In different ways, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all trace their beginnings to Abraham. His wives, Hagar and Sarah, though also pivotal in the story, have received far less attention. In this book, however, noted Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sch...

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Handbook of Biblical Criticism, Fourth Edition

By Richard N. Soulen, R. Kendall Soulen

This best-selling textbook, now in its fourth edition, continues to be a valuable resource for the beginning student in the critical study of the Bible. Thoroughly revised to include the newest methods, discoveries, and developments in the field of b...

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The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism
Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies

By Jon D. Levenson

Writing from a Jewish perspective, Jon Levenson reviews many often neglected theoretical questions. He focuses on the relationship between two interpretive communities--the community of scholars who are committed to the historical-critical method of ...

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Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism
Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust

By Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz

Current scholarship in the study of ancient Christianity is now available to nonspecialists through this collection of essays on anti-Judaism in the New Testament and in New Testament interpretation. While academic writing can be obscure and popular ...

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John Calvin's Exegesis of the Old Testament

By David L. Puckett

John Calvin's reading of the Old Testament was a departure from that of many of his contemporaries. He rejected much of the traditional Christian exegesis of the Old Testament that attempted to to explain it in terms of the New Testament revelation o...

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Liberating Exegesis
The Challenge of Liberation Theology to Biblical Studies

By Mark Corner, Christopher Rowland

This important book provides a sampling of liberation theology's use of biblical texts, relating it to the "standard" methods of interpretation in Europe and America. Divided into four sections, the book sets out contemporary readings of the parable ...

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Literary Forms in the New Testament
A Handbook

By James L. Bailey, Lyle D. Vander Broek

In this useful and accessible book, James Bailey and Lyle Vander Broek discuss the literary and rhetorical forms found in the New Testament. The authors offer definitions and examples of these forms while also helping the reader appreciate the signif...

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The Method and Message of Jesus' Teachings, Revised Edition

By Robert H. Stein

This useful and practical book provides the college student, seminarian, church study group, and interested lay person with a much-needed introductory guide on the "how" (method) and the "what" (message) of Jesus' teachings. In this revised edition, ...

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The Nature of Biblical Criticism

By John Barton

Biblical criticism faces increasing hostility on two fronts: from biblical conservatives, who claim it is inherently positivistic and religiously skeptical, and from postmodernists, who see it as driven by the falsities of objectivity and neutrality....

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