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Houses of the Interpreter

Name: Houses of the Interpreter
Brand: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780918954893
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BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780918954893

Reading Scripture, Reading Culture

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By David Lyle Jeffrey
Imprint: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 155 x 230 mm
Weight: 460 g
Pages: 288

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Going beyond merely charting biblical scholarship and how it has both influenced and been influenced by cultural influences, Jeffrey focuses upon the "art" of biblical interpretation - how sculptors, musicians, poets, novelists and painters have "read" the Bible. By doing so, he demonstrates how such cultural interpretation has deepened the Church's understanding of the Bible as scripture and how, remarkably, this cultural reading has even contributed to theology and the practice of faith. Jeffrey's chapters root theological issues germane to the hermeneutical enterprise (scriptural authority, narrative, the Old Testament as Christian scripture and the role of the reader, gender and postmodernism) in specific authors and artists (such as Chaucer, Bosch, Sir Orefo and C.S. Lewis) and he does this in constant conversation with literature, both eastern and western. The list of "great readers" of scripture that Jeffrey draws up includes far fewer trained theologians than one might expect, and it is his thesis that the Church's desire and need for a deeply consistent and intellectually coherent biblical theology will only be satisfied by including the treasury of foundational interpreters that he assembles. But Jeffrey even here is careful to argue that the understanding of the un-ordained, the laity, needs also to be gathered up and most carefully reflected upon in the light of scripture itself.

David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Baylor University. He is the author or editor of more than 12 books including Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture .

Preface; How Firm a Foundation...?; Masterplot & Meaning in Biblical Narrative; Self-Examination & the Examination of Texts; Charity & Cupidity in Biblical Tradition; The Gospel according to Isaiah; Authority & Interpretation in the House of Fame; Chaucer's Friar's (Unpaid) Rent; Conversion in the English Saints' Plays; Parody & Piety in Bosch's Haywain; Sir Orfeo's Harp: Music for the End of Time; Reading Wisely, Reading Well; Reading the Bible with C S Lewis; Scripture, Gender & Our Language of Worship; The Teaching Authority of Jesus & the Fatherhood of God; Postmodern Theology & Perennial Truth; Index.

These essays are vintage Jeffrey--lively, literate, and learned, rich in wit and wisdom, ranging from ancient epic to medieval literature and art to postmodern parody, distinguished by a passionate erudition that attends with single-minded, open-hearted illumination to the interpretation of Scripture across cultures. Above all Jeffrey's writing enacts the kind of intertextual theological resourcement that our own houses of culture so desperately need: building up the Christian literary imagination through the scriptural education of our loves. Jeffrey brilliantly displays the virtues he holds up as characteristic of the exemplary reader: the rigorous analytic disciplines of the pilgrim mind, and the generosities of an open-hearted imagination.-Travis Kroekers, McMaster University, Ontario

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