Biblical Interpretation: History, Context, and Reality - Paperback

by Christine Helmer (Editor), Taylor G. Petrey (With)

More akin to science than to art, biblical interpretation eats its dead--consigning its past heroes to oblivion once new paradigms have passed them by. The history of the field has emerged as a separate discipline, and the question pondered by theologians and philosophers here is whether that history has merit of its own, or serves merely as raw ma