In The Beginning: Critical Concepts For The Study Of The Bible

by James Aageson

Overview

This book represents different trajectories through the complex world of biblical interpretation and asks students to think like critical biblical interpreters. It provides students with the means to address biblical questions with skill and sophistication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367316181
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/28/2019
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Aageson is a professor at Concordia College in Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Introduction — An Issue of Distance — Two Religions, One Set of Texts — A Matter of Method — From a Hunch to a Hypothesis — What About Language? — To Hear and to See — Be It History or Literature? — The Bible: A Book or a Library? — Like an Ever-flowing Stream — Let's Just Read It Literally — What Is Truth? Fact, Myth, and Moral Critique — This Canon Has One "N" — The Three Legs of Interpretation — A Question of Purity — Digging in the Text and in the Dirt — The Bible and the Examined Life