Bible and Transformation: The Promise of Intercultural Bible Reading
edited by Hans de Wit and janet Dyk
SBL Press, 2015
Cloth: 978-1-62837-106-2 | Paper: 978-1-62837-105-5 | eISBN: 978-1-62837-107-9
Library of Congress Classification BS476.B4928 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 220.609
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 discipline—empirical 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
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