Scripture As Communication

by Brown, Jeannine K.

• ISBN13: 9780801027888
• ISBN10: 0801027888
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: BAKER BOOK HOUSE

Summary

Is the Bible just a book of ancient Israelite and Christian history and practices to be read? Or are we engaging in a more interactive practice when we study God's word? Jeannine K. Brown believes that communication is at the heart of what we do when we open the Bible, that we are actively engaging God in a conversation that can be life changing. By learning about how Scripture communicates, modern readers can extract much more meaning out of the text than they could if simply reading the Bible as though it was a list of rules or a collection of stories. In Scripture as Communication, Brown offers professors, students, church leaders, and laity a basic guide to the theory and practice of biblical interpretation, helping them understand our engagement with Scriptures as primarily a communicative act.

Author Biography

Jeannine K. Brown (PhD, Luther Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament and associate academic dean at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of The Disciples in Narrative Perspective: The Portrayal and Function of the Matthean Disciples.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction: Scripture as Communicative Act	p. 11
Theoretical Perspectives on Scripture as Communication
Terminology and Context for Hermeneutics	p. 19
A Communication Model of Hermeneutics	p. 29
Authors, Texts, Readers: Historical Movements and Reactions	p. 57
Some Affirmations about Meaning from a Communication Model	p. 79
Developing Textual Meaning: Implications, Effects, and Other Ways of Going "Beyond"	p. 100
An Invitation to Active Engagement: The Reader and the Bible	p. 120
Practical Guidance for Interpreting Scripture as Communication
Genre and Communication	p. 139
The Language of the Bible	p. 166
The Social World of the Bible	p. 189
Literary Context, Intertextuality, and Canon	p. 212
Conceptualizing Contextualization	p. 232
Contextualization: Understanding Scripture Incarnationally	p. 252
Exegesis Guidelines	p. 275
Historical Criticism	p. 281
Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry	p. 284
Epistles: Following an Author's Flow of Thought	p. 286
How to Go about Topical Studies	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 291
Subject Index	p. 304
Scripture Index	p. 313
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