Reading the Bible around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics
Overview
It's an exciting time to be reading the Bible. As we increasingly encounter readers with perspectives, experiences, and cultures different from our own, we can incorporate new ideas and approaches to interpreting Scripture. When diverse interpretations from various social locations are gathered together, we gain new vistas and a fuller image of the text.
In Reading the Bible around the World, a crosscultural team of scholars describes and workshops global readings in biblical interpretation, focusing on passages in both the Old and New Testaments. By presenting a range of readings from different regions and people groups, with particular attention to marginalized groups, the authors demonstrate the importance of contextually sensitive approaches. They help us build up key values for reading Scripture in the twenty-first century: self-awareness, other-awareness, and true dialogue.
Who we are shapes how we read. Guided by these expert teachers, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the influence of their own social location and how to keep growing in biblical wisdom by reading alongside the global Christian community.
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- Demonstrates the importance of contextually sensitive approaches
- Focuses on passages in both the Old and New Testaments
- Describes and workshops global readings in biblical interpretation
- Introduction: Why We Need Global Approaches Justin Marc Smith
- Latin American Approaches Federico Alfredo Roth
- African Approaches Alice Yafeh-Deigh
- European and Euro-American Approaches Justin Marc Smith
- Asian Approaches Kirsten Sonkyo Oh
- Diasporic Approaches Kay Higuera Smith
- Conclusion Federico Alfredo Roth
- Title: Reading the Bible around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics
- Authors: Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin Marc Smith, Kirsten Sonkyo Oh, Alice Yafeh-Deigh, Kay Higuera Smith
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 154
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible › Hermeneutics; Globalization › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781514001875, 9781514001868, 151400187X, 1514001861
- Resource ID: LLS:READINGBIBLEWORLD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:38:37Z
Reviews
2 ratings
Vinicius Barrella
5/2/2023
I had the privilege of having these amazing scholars as my professors during my undergraduate journey at Azusa Pacific University. This book fulfill its purpose to show how different backgrounds affect the interpretation of a certain biblical text. It is a good resource for whom is looking for kind of content.
Elias Brasil de Souza
9/30/2022
