Biblical Interpretation: A Roadmap

by Sharon H. Ringe, Frederick C. Tiffany

Biblical A Roadmap is a guide to discovering and asking the key questions - about biblical texts, about readers of the Bible, and about the interaction of the two - that forms the basis of biblical interpretation today. These questions are organized around three fundamental assumptions that govern the authors' approach to reading the the biblical texts arise from particular historical, social, and cultural the reader likewise reads from a specific setting; and neither the diversity of the texts nor the multitude of readers stands in isolation one from the other. Tiffany and Ringe here offer an approach to biblical interpretation that takes both the texts and the reading context seriously, guiding and encouraging readers to draw upon the expertise and authority of their own life experiences and contexts. They also recognize that wide-ranging experiences and contexts are necessarily involved in biblical interpretation, showing how critical engagement with those contexts, in all their historical, social, and cultural diversity, is itself an unavoidable and invaluable part of the interpretative process.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biblical Studies

239 pages, 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.