Because the Bible is an ancient book, it invites the preacher back into its world in order to understand; because the Bible is the churchs Scripture, it moves forward into our world and addresses us here and now. from the authors Introduction
Because the Bible is an ancient book, it invites the preacher back into its world in order to understand; because the Bible is the churchs Scripture, ...
Abraham J. Malherbe Carl Holladay John T. Fitzgerald
Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse intellectual traditions that interacted within specific social contexts. These essays, spanning over fifty years, illustrate Malherbe's appreciation of the complexities of this ecology and what is required to explore philological and conceptual connections between early Christian writers, especially Paul and Athenagoras, and their literary counterparts who participated in the religious and...
Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient...
Christian interpretation of the Bible is not a simpletask. While finding both its beginning and end in the theological claim that Scripture reveals to us"what God has done in Christ,"Christian interpretation demands much more. The interaction between believer and text is also conversation between reader and interpretive community, both ancient and modern. Theological interpretation entails close readingsof texts but also a close analysis of contexts the social and political shapeof the Mediterranean worldas well as our own. Interpretation requires theinterweaving of theology, history, and...
Christian interpretation of the Bible is not a simpletask. While finding both its beginning and end in the theological claim that Scripture reveals...
