Engage the delightful and inspiring, sometimes rough and rocky road to inclusive and transformative Bible reading
This book offers the results of research within a new area of disciplineāempirical hermeneutics in intercultural perspective. The book includes interpretations from the homeless in Amsterdam, to Indonesia, from African Xhosa readers to Norway, to Madagascar, American youths, Germany, Czech Republic, Colombia, and Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic.
Features:
- Interpretations from ordinary readers in more than twenty-five countries
- Background introduction with history of the text
- Discussion of intertextual connections with Greco-Roman authors