Reading The Bible: Intention, Text, Interpretation - Couverture souple

Lane, Robert D

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0595318746 ISBN 13 : 9780595318742

Editeur : iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

This book argues that the best way to understand the stories of the Old and New Testaments is to consider them as human stories with sophisticated narrative techniques at play. God is a character in these stories from the beginning and considering god as a character in a narrative proves fruitful in responding to the human voices of these stories.

Although many readers go to the Bible to find the revealed word of Yahweh or of the Christian God, what they find there is always an interpretation of the text through the filters of a religious dogma which exists prior to the reading of the text. Reading the Bible suggests another way of reading the texts, a way of reading which concentrates not on "what does it mean?" but on "what does it say?" and "what do I see there?" The result is a fresh approach to the reading of these biblical texts, an approach which celebrates human storytelling while investigating myth, language, and the act of reading a text.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bob Lane is a retired philosophy professor who has taught literature and philosophy for thirty-three years at colleges in the United States and Canada. He is a frequent contributor to the Humanist in Canada.

Professor Lane retired from teaching at Malaspina University College in 1999 and is now involved in writing fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595318746
• ISBN 13: 9780595318742
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible