Sacred Scripture

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ISBN: 9780664232467 | 0664232469
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Copyright: 2/1/2010

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How did the Bible's sixty-six books become sacred Scripture? How have they been understood and interpreted over the last two thousand years? What led to our enduring acceptance of the Bible as the true Word of God?

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
What Is Sacred Scripture?	p. 1
The Old Testament as Sacred Scripture	p. 1
The New Testament as Sacred Scripture	p. 9
Which Scripture Is Sacred?	p. 17
The Sacred Scripture of Judaism	p. 18
The Sacred Scriptures of the Early Church	p. 22
Summary	p. 27
Which Manuscripts?	p. 29
What's the Problem?	p. 29
The Reformation and the Beginnings of a Critical Text of the New Testament	p. 33
Recent Discoveries	p. 36
The Development of the Critical Text	p. 39
Summary	p. 43
Which Translation?	p. 45
The Blessing of Translation	p. 45
The Challenge of Translation	p. 46
Translation: From the Septuagint to the King James Version	p. 48
The Aims of Modern Translation	p. 52
The Geneva Bible Redivivus	p. 58
How Does Scripture Interpret Itself?	p. 61
Introduction	p. 61
Scripture Interpreting Scripture in the Hebrew Bible	p. 62
Typology in the New Testament	p. 70
Conclusion	p. 75
What Did the Early Church Leaders Say?	p. 77
Change and Continuity	p. 77
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon	p. 78
Origen	p. 80
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo	p. 86
Conclusion	p. 94
How Many Senses Does Scripture Have?	p. 97
The Quadriga	p. 97
Abbot Suger and the Anagogical Sense	p. 100
Bernard of Clairvaux and the Tropological Sense	p. 102
Peter Abelard and the Allegorical Sense	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 112
What Is the Center of Scripture?	p. 113
The Center of Scripture and Luther's Reformation	p. 114
The Center of Scripture and Protestant Scholasticism	p. 120
The Center of Scripture and Pietism	p. 121
Conclusion	p. 129
What Is the Literal Sense of Scripture?	p. 131
Introduction	p. 131
The Historical Event behind the Text: Reimarus	p. 132
Authorial Mind or Intent: Schleiermacher	p. 138
Ideas or Concepts Independent of Either History or Intent: Jefferson	p. 147
Summary	p. 153
What Is Modern Biblical Interpretation?	p. 155
Modern and Postmodern	p. 155
Source Criticism	p. 158
Form Criticism	p. 161
Redaction Criticism	p. 164
Summary	p. 169
What Is Contemporary Biblical Interpretation?	p. 171
A Postmodern Analogy: On Playing Ball with the Text	p. 172
Postmodern Biblical Interpretation	p. 173
Liberation Biblical Interpretation	p. 176
Postcrirical Biblical Interpretation	p. 183
Epilogue	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 207
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