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"* 'In this excellent introduction, Paula Gooder acts as our erudite, reliable and ever patient guide. This impressive volume deserves to be on the bibliography of every serious student of the Bible.' Dr Helen Bond, University of Edinburgh 'This is a clearly written and extremely helpful introduction to many different approaches to the interpretation of the New Testament. Experts from around the world and across many disciplines contribute specialised explanations, while Paula Gooder's excellent discussions apply each form of criticism to actual New Testament textual examples. It will become an indispensable tool and is greatly to be welcomed.' Richard A. Burridge Dean of King's College London and Professor of Biblical Interpretation"
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This book introduces readers to the different methods used when interpreting the New Testament. Although there are other books on the market that introduce the various techniques they are often very theoretical and it is hard for readers to see what difference the methods of interpretation make in practice to how a passage might be understood. Here, Paula Gooder responds to this gap in the market by giving practical textual examples of how a text might be interpreted using a broad range of interpretational methods. She also explores techniques that are often omitted from books on biblical interpretation, such as textual criticism and post-colonial criticism. The emphasis throughout is on what difference the method of interpretation makes for understanding the text.The text is mainly written by Paula Gooder but includes short contributions from world class scholars who offer nuggets of wisdom on their particular area of expertise.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Historical criticism. Form criticism. Feminist criticism. If you're starting on serious theological study, you've probably heard of them, even if it's not always easy to grasp them or distinguish some of them from each other. This excellent introduction, describing twenty-three different approaches to interpreting the New Testament (in less than ten pages each) will demystify them for you - I think it's quite simply the clearest and most accessible way into the subject there is. Each chapter starts with a review of the topic from a leading scholar (Bruce Malina on social science criticism, Mark Goodacre on redaction criticism, for example), with a brief bibliography of `essential further reading'. Then follows a worked example, in which Gooder applies the interpretive technique in question to a particular NT text.
These examples, for me, were the highlight: loads of new insights on familiar passages from new and unfamiliar angles, the best being a description of Elsa Tamez's analysis of the problems caused by (she argues) rich women in 1 Timothy 2 from a socio-political criticism standpoint; and of Musa Dube's postcolonial criticism perspective on Matthew's Gospel as a sort of apology for Roman imperialism. But it's invidious to select just two, because there are many other fascinating and thought-provoking examples. Gooder's positive evaluation of each interpretive lens concludes the chapters, and although here one feels she could occasionally have been more robust in critiquing the shortcomings of some methodologies, the reader is left with a clear sense of the value of the approach described. Very good indeed.
These examples, for me, were the highlight: loads of new insights on familiar passages from new and unfamiliar angles, the best being a description of Elsa Tamez's analysis of the problems caused by (she argues) rich women in 1 Timothy 2 from a socio-political criticism standpoint; and of Musa Dube's postcolonial criticism perspective on Matthew's Gospel as a sort of apology for Roman imperialism. But it's invidious to select just two, because there are many other fascinating and thought-provoking examples. Gooder's positive evaluation of each interpretive lens concludes the chapters, and although here one feels she could occasionally have been more robust in critiquing the shortcomings of some methodologies, the reader is left with a clear sense of the value of the approach described. Very good indeed.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very good introductory text to many ways of reading the bible. it is written in accessible languge and is interesting to read. A must for any student of theology and good value.
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