hermeneutics

Fear no more from rosclarke 946 days old

Fear no more the heat o'the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages, Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en they wages. Golden lads, and ...

A paper in search of a title from rosclarke 947 days old

[ ... ] like this deserves a better title than 'A Critical Analysis of James B. Jordan's Hermeneutics'. So all suggestions gratefully received. Marc?

The Art of Reading Scripture from rosclarke 956 days old

This is something I am reading and very much enjoying at the moment. The Art of Reading Scripture ed. Richard Hays and Ellen Davis Excellent, insightful ...

History of Interpretation of Job from rosclarke 960 days old

How do you make that an interesting lecture? Professor C. L. Seow just treated the poets class to a 2 hour close reading of the Hebrew text of Job 1-2 ...

Limiting concepts from rosclarke 962 days old

You've got to love a paper that comes with the title 'A Very Rough Sketch of an Idea I'm Excited About'. And I'm looking forward to hearing Tommy Keene ...

Our great God from rosclarke 965 days old

Jordan quoting Bavinck: God is compared to a lion, Isaiah 31:4; an eagle, Deuteronomy 32:11; a lamb, Isaiah 53:7; a hen, Matthew 23:37; the sun, Psalm ...

Rules for Biblical Interpretation from rosclarke 965 days old

From 'Through New Eyes', chapter 1 1. Biblical symbolism and imagery is not a code. 2. Biblical symbols do not exist in isolation. 3. We must always ...

Apologia on Reading the Bible from rosclarke 973 days old

I've just spent a very pleasurable half hour or so reading this article by James B. Jordan. It's a sort-of defence of Jordan's hermeneutic but really, ...

Call for help... from rosclarke 988 days old

from all the very erudite and well-read readers of my blog. I'm planning to write a paper this semester analysing James Jordan's hermeneutics of 'interpretive ...

Poetry and the Bible from rosclarke 1002 days old

I was disappointed, but not surprised, today in class when Pete Enns asked who in the room loved poetry and, out of around 40 students, only my hand ...