HOUSES OF THE INTERPRETER by David Lyle Jeffrey ( 9781602582392 )

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HOUSES OF THE INTERPRETER
READING SCRIPTURE, READING CULTURE

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ISBN 10:

1602582394

ISBN 13:

9781602582392

Publisher:

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 October, 2003

Pages:

300

Synopsis:

In Houses of the Interpreter , 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 (e.g., Chaucer, Bosch, Sir Orfeo, C. S. Lewis)--and he does this in constant conversation with literature, both eastern and western.

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colour illus

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Baylor University Press

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Non-returnable

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