Exploring the Bible: Foundations for Learning
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, 2016
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Overview
In Exploring the Bible, preseminarians and other students about to begin training in ministry join scholars Eric D. Barreto and Michael J. Chan on a journey through Scripture. More than simply a practical guide to reading the Bible, this book will help readers claim their unique interpretive perspective. Barreto and Chan invite us to bring our full, authentic selves to a text that will affirm and challenge us, confirm and transform us, delight and concern us. There, God speaks, and we can hear God’s word in a new way.
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- Invites readers to ask themselves “Who am I when reading the Bible” and other questions as an attempt to help them recognize what other issues in life and culture shape understanding and interpretation of biblical texts
- Provides recommended readings at the end of the book to expand on the issues addressed throughout the book
- Contains an in-depth inventory of questions in Appendix A to encourage profound reflection
What is the Bible?
- Who Are We as Readers of the Bible?
- How Does a Text Mean?
- Who Wrote the Bible?
- Who Picked the Books of the Bible?
- Why Does Translation Matter?
- What Then is the Word of God
- Who Are We When We Read the Bible
How Then Do We Read the Bible?
- How Do We Read Creation Texts?
- How Do We Read Biblical Law?
- How Do We Read Biblical Poetry?
- How Do We Read Prophecy?
- How Do We Read Wisdom Literature
- How Do We Read Narratives
- How Do We Read Four Gospels
- How Do We Read the Letters of Paul
- How Do We Read Apocalyptic Literature
Straight from the seminary classroom: Eric Barreto and Michael Chan not only show readers how to read the Bible with insight, they ask the essential questions.‘Who are we when we read the Bible?’ This little book introduces fundamental prolems in biblical interpretation, insisting that faithful interpretation requires humility, honesty, and loving engagement with the human community. Barreto and Chan make splendid guides and admirable role models.
Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Get this book into the hands of folks heading for seminary! Exploring the Bible offers a go to resource to help them navigate the world of biblical study, which is vast and overwhelming for most beginners. This gives a road map for biblical study that takes both faith and scholarship seriously.
Amy Oden, Saint Paul School of Theology at Oklahoma City University
In this volume, two bright young stars team up to offer and exceedingly helpful orientation to the Bible: what it is and how best to read it. This is a fantastic ‘first-touch’ volume for students who are about to enter the early stages of theological education. The authors write accessibly but with great erudition and sensitivity to a vast range of hermeneutical topics. Students who begin their study of Scripture at the feet of Barreto and Chan will be better for it.
Brent A. Strawn, Emory University
- Title: Exploring the Bible: Foundations for Learning
- Author: Eric D. Barreto
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Pages: 120
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Resource ID: LLS:EXPLORINGTHEBBL
- Resource Type: Monograph
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