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Challenging Contextuality: Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context provides a new and innovative contribution to the study of biblical texts by bringing together current approaches to biblical interpretation. The volume sets the agenda for the future of the field and provides a synthesis of approaches to date. In doing so, it aligns itself with the broadly shared hermeneutical conviction that contextuality is a catalyst for interpretation. This applies in equal measure to approaches and methods that are often framed as ''traditional'' or ''mainstream'' (e.g. the methodological canon of the historical critical approach as the offspring of the European Enlightenment) and those that are often dubbed ''contextual'' (e.g. forms of feminist or ''indigenous'' interpretation). The volume grounds contextual biblical interpretation within the broader landscape of biblical studies, and the chapters are all interested in the contexts in which bibles are read. Rather than a series of examples of

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    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Publication Date: 8/15/2024 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780192888792, 978-0192888792
    ISBN10: 019288879X

    Non Fiction , Education

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    Challenging Contextuality: Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context provides a new and innovative contribution to the study of biblical texts by bringing together current approaches to biblical interpretation. The volume sets the agenda for the future of the field and provides a synthesis of approaches to date. In doing so, it aligns itself with the broadly shared hermeneutical conviction that contextuality is a catalyst for interpretation. This applies in equal measure to approaches and methods that are often framed as ''traditional'' or ''mainstream'' (e.g. the methodological canon of the historical critical approach as the offspring of the European Enlightenment) and those that are often dubbed ''contextual'' (e.g. forms of feminist or ''indigenous'' interpretation). The volume grounds contextual biblical interpretation within the broader landscape of biblical studies, and the chapters are all interested in the contexts in which bibles are read. Rather than a series of examples of

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