The Sacred Text: Excavating the Texts, Exploring the Interpretations, and Engaging the Theologies of the Christian Scriptures

Published by Gorgias Press 2010

The Sacred Text

Excavating the Texts, Exploring the Interpretations, and Engaging the Theologies of the Christian Scriptures

Edited by: Michael Bird and Michael Pahl

In the series Gorgias Précis Portfolios

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463216481

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The Sacred Text presents an introduction to historical, interpretive, and theological issues relating to the Christian Scriptures. It presents an overview of the formation of the canon, discusses different strategies for interpretation, and describes how Scripture functions in different theological traditions.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
INTRODUCTION: FROM MANUSCRIPT TO MP3 Michael F. Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
THE HISTORY OF THE TEXTS
1. THE SEPTUAGINT AS SCRIPTURE IN THE EARLY CHURCH Karen H. Jobes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. SCRIPTURE IN THE SECOND CENTURY Tomas Bokedal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION: SEEKING A MIDDLE PATH Michael W. Pahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4. SCRIPTURE AND CANON John C. Poirier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE TEXTS
5. SCRIPTURE AND BIBLICAL CRITICISM Jamie A. Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6. SCRIPTURE AND THEOLOGICAL EXEGESIS Thorsten Moritz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. SCRIPTURE AND POSTMODERN EPISTEMOLOGY Robert Shillaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8. SCRIPTURE AND NEW INTERPRETIVE APPROACHES: FEMINIST & POST-COLONIAL Jennifer G. Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
THE THEOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE TEXTS AS SCRIPTURE
9. CATHOLIC DOCTRINE ON SCRIPTURE: INSPIRATION, INERRANCY, AND INTERPRETATION Brant Pitre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
10. SCRIPTURE IN EASTERN ORTHODOXY: CANON, TRADITION, AND INTERPRETATION George Kalantzis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
11. STILL SOLA SCRIPTURA: AN EVANGELICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SCRIPTURE James M. Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
12. THE WORD AS EVENT: BARTH AND BULTMANN ON SCRIPTURE David W. Congdon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Pages
- Main content: 280

eBook

Published: February 4, 2010
ISBN: 9781463216481