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Deep exegesis : the mystery of reading Scripture / Peter J. Leithart. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, (c)2009.Description: viii, 254 pages : music ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781602580695
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS511.L533.D447 2009
  • BS511
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Contents:
Preface: Learning to read from Jesus and Paul -- The text is a husk : modern hermeneutics -- Texts are events : typology -- Words are players : semantics -- The text is a joke : intertextuality -- Texts are music : structure -- Texts are about Christ : application.
Subject: Seeking to train readers to "hear all that is being said" within a written text, Peter Leithart advocates a hermeneutics of the letter that is not rigidly literalist and looks to learn to read--not just the Bible, but everything--from Jesus and Paul. Deep Exegesis explores the nature of reading itself--taking clues from Jesus and Paul on the meaning of meaning, the functions of language, and proper modes of interpretation. By looking (and listening) closely, and by including passages from the Bible and other literary sources, Leithart aims to do for the text what Jesus did for the blind man in John 9: to make new by opening eyes. --From publisher's description.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BS511.3.L45 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001841796

Preface: Learning to read from Jesus and Paul -- The text is a husk : modern hermeneutics -- Texts are events : typology -- Words are players : semantics -- The text is a joke : intertextuality -- Texts are music : structure -- Texts are about Christ : application.

Seeking to train readers to "hear all that is being said" within a written text, Peter Leithart advocates a hermeneutics of the letter that is not rigidly literalist and looks to learn to read--not just the Bible, but everything--from Jesus and Paul. Deep Exegesis explores the nature of reading itself--taking clues from Jesus and Paul on the meaning of meaning, the functions of language, and proper modes of interpretation. By looking (and listening) closely, and by including passages from the Bible and other literary sources, Leithart aims to do for the text what Jesus did for the blind man in John 9: to make new by opening eyes. --From publisher's description.

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