Biblical Interpretation: A Roadmap by Sharon H. Ringe

by Sharon H. Ringe

Excellent Book

Genres: Nonfiction, Biblical Studies

Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

Reviews

[Mz Cleo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, this book! Hard to put down. Read it twice! Great book!

[M · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought their approach to biblical interpretation was too subjective - more like literary analysis.

[Carol Gorham]

While I like the concept of the book, I was disappointed with the writing style. Perhaps it isn't fair of me to give it such a low score, because maybe they never intended for a person like me to have to read it. This book was assigned as the lesson for a Lay Servant course. Perhaps if I was a Biblical scholar this would be a five star book. But for me, a laity, this book seemed like it was full of unnecessary high brow language. You don't need to speak in a way to impress us with your intelligence. The point will get across if your book is good. Unfortunately, it was so distracting, I couldn't tell you if the book was good or not. There was no flow in the reading of it.

This is by far the best review and very true and I was in the same class, the book was completely full of repeating the same concept over and over in the same paragraph. The idea behind the book is okay, if it had been written in everyday English and not "Look at how many Big words I can use, over and over again"

Unless your are a seminary, run, hide, drop at book, before panic sets in.