The Bible and the Believer
How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 March 2015
- ISBN 9780190218713
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 231x155x17 mm
- Weight 318 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
How can one read the Bible both critically and religiously? To answer that question, The Bible and the Believer enlists one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant biblical scholar who explain and illustrate how to read the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh/Old Testament critically and religiously in light of their own religious traditions.
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Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways?
The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant--to illustrate how to read the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament critically and religiously. Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington tackle a dilemma that not only haunts biblical scholarship today, but also disturbs students and others exposed to biblical criticism for the first time, either in university courses or through their own reading. Failure to resolve these conflicting interpretive strategies often results in rejection of either the critical approach or the religious approach--or both. But the authors demonstrate how biblical criticism--the process of establishing the original contextual meaning of biblical texts with the tools of literary and historical analysis--need not undermine religious interpretations of the Bible, but can in fact enhance them. They show how awareness of new archeological evidence, cultural context, literary form, and other tools of historical criticism can provide the necessary preparation for a sound religious reading. And they argue that the challenges such study raises for religious belief should be brought into conversation with religious tradition rather than deemed grounds for dismissing either that tradition or biblical criticism.
Guiding readers through the history of biblical exegesis within the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faith traditions, The Bible and the Believer bridges an age-old gap between critical and religious approaches to the Old Testament.
The three scholarly authors of The Bible and the Believer- one for each of the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant traditions -challenge readers religiously and intellectually.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: The Historical-Critical Reading of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Chapter One: My Bible: A Jew's Perspective - Marc Zvi Brettler
Response by Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
Response by Peter Enns
Chapter Two: Reading the Bible Critically and Religiously: Catholic Perspectives - Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
Response by Peter Enns
Response by Marc Zvi Brettler
Chapter Three: Protestantism and Biblical Criticism: One Perspective on a Difficult Dialogue - Peter Enns
Response by Marc Zvi Brettler
Response by Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
Postscript
Notes
Glossary
Index
