Listening to the Bible The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation
Listening to the Bible The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation
- ISBN 13:
9780199336593
- ISBN 10:
0199336598
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/04/2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Bryan traces the history of modern approaches to the Bible, particularly historical criticism, noting its successes and failures. Basing his work on a wide knowledge of literature and literary critical theory, and drawing on the insights of the greatest literary critics of the last hundred years, notably Erich Auerbach and George Steiner, Bryan asks: what should be the task of the biblical scholar in the 21st century? Setting the question within this wider context enables Bryan to indicate a series of criteria with which biblical interpreters may do their work, and in the light of which there is no reason why that work cannot relate faithfully to the Church. This does not mean that sound biblical interpretation can ignore the specificity of scientific or historical questions, or dragoon its results into conformity with a set of ecclesial propositions. Bryan argues, however, that interpreters of biblical text cannot ignore its existence in the community of faith; and that although textual interpretation has scientific elements, it is, ultimately, an exercise in imagination.
In the book's final chapter, actor-director David Landon explores some techniques of oral delivery of scripture.