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Houses Of The Interpreter

Name: Houses Of The Interpreter
Price: 66.41 GBP
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Author: David Lyle Jeffrey
ISBN: 9781481314763

by David Lyle Jeffrey

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300 pages
Publisher: Baylor University Press
15.3 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm

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For those who love art, history, and the Bible.

Shows how culture helps us read Scripture deeper.

Grows your faith through a new cultural lens.

Discover how art, literature, and culture have deepened our understanding of the Bible throughout history.

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In Houses of the Interpreter, David Lyle Jeffrey explores the terrain of the cultural history of biblical interpretation. But Jeffrey does not merely rest content to chart biblical scholarship and how it has both influenced and been influenced by culture. Instead, he chooses to focus upon the art of Biblical interpretation--how sculptors, musicians, poets, novelists, and painters have read the Bible. By so doing, Jeffrey clearly demonstrates that such cultural interpretation has deepened the church's understanding of the Bible as Scripture and that, remarkably, this cultural reading has contributed to theology and the practice of faith. Jeffrey's chapters effectively root the theological issues central to any hermeneutical enterprise (e.g., Scriptural authority, narrative, the Old Testament as Christian Scripture, the role of the reader, gender, and postmodernism) in specific authors and artists (e.g., Chaucer, Bosch, Sir Orfeo, C. S. Lewis)--and he does this in constant conversation with literature, both eastern and western.