Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation
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Overview
Recognizing what we are reading—the genre—is crucial for understanding any written work, including the books of the New Testament. However, we may not always realize we use genre categories as we interpret, whether explicitly or implicitly. Embedded genres, or genres within genres, can substantively impact the interpretation of an entire New Testament book.
This short, accessible book by a widely respected scholar and seasoned teacher introduces embedded genres, their impact on New Testament interpretation, and how they contribute to the message of the New Testament authors. Jeannine Brown offers hermeneutical guidance for interpreting embedded genres and explores the hermeneutical questions they raise. She focuses on three case studies of embedded genres that have been contested, underidentified, or underappreciated across the New Testament corpus: the Christ poem in Philippians 2, riddles in Matthew, and a household code in 1 Peter.
Students of the New Testament, pastors, and ministry leaders will value this work.
- Introduces embedded genres, their impact on New Testament interpretation, and how they contribute to the message of the New Testament authors
- Offers hermeneutical guidance for interpreting embedded genres
- Explores the hermeneutical questions
- Title: Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation
- Author: Jeannine K. Brown
- Series: Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 145
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Criticism, Form; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Literary form
- ISBNs: 9781540967619, 9781540967725, 9781493445936, 9781493445943, 1540967611, 1540967727, 1493445936, 1493445944
- Resource ID: LLS:MBDDDGNNTRPRTTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-06-25T18:21:28Z
Dr. Jeannine Brown has taught at Bethel Seminary for nearly two decades in the areas of New Testament, hermeneutics, and integration. Her books include Scripture as Communication, Becoming Whole and Holy: An Integrative Conversation about Christian Formation,and the forthcoming volume on Matthew in the Teach the Text Commentary series. She’s written various articles that have been published in Journal of Biblical Literature, New Testament Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Journal of Psychology and Theology, and Journal of Psychology and Christianity. She’s also associate editor of the second edition of the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels.
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