Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics: A Comprehensive Framework for Hearing God in Scripture

Renowned scholar Craig Bartholomew, coauthor of the bestselling textbook The Drama of Scripture (75,000 copies sold), writes in his main area of expertise--hermeneutics--to help seminarians pursue a lifetime of biblical interpretation. Integrating the latest research in theology, philosophy, and biblical studies, this substantive hermeneutics textbook is robustly theological in its approach, takes philosophical hermeneutics seriously, keeps the focus throughout on the actual process of interpreting Scripture, and argues that biblical interpretation should be centered in the context and service of the church--an approach that helps us hear God's address today.

• Contents
• Part 1: Approaching Biblical Interpretation
  • 1. Biblical Interpretation Coram Deo
  • 2. Listening and Biblical Interpretation
• Part 2: Biblical Interpretation and Biblical Theology
  • 3. The Story of Our World
  • 4. The Development of Biblical Theology
• Part 3: The Story of Biblical Interpretation
  • 5. The Traditions within Which We Read
  • 6. Early and Medieval Jewish Biblical Interpretation
  • 7. Renaissance, Reformation, and Modernity
  • 8. Canon
• Part 4: Biblical Interpretation and the Academic Disciplines
  • 9. Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Biblical Interpretation
  • 10. History
  • 11. Literature
  • 12. Theology
  • 13. Scripture and the University: The Ecology of Christian Scholarship
• Part 5: The Goal of Biblical Interpretation
  • 14. The "Epistle" to the Hebrews: But We Do See Jesus
  • 15. Preaching the Bible for All It's Worth: The Resurrection of the Sermon and the Incarnation of the Christ
• Indexes