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Listening in : a multicultural reading of the Psalms / Stephen Breck Reid. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Nashville : Abingdon Press, [(c)1997.Description: 108 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0687011949
  • 9780687011940
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1430.2.L578 1997
  • BS1430.2.R358.L578 1997
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Contents:
Ch. 1. The Conflictual Self. Listening In to the Psalms. Listening In at the Foot of the Cross. Listening In to Contemporary Culture -- Ch. 2. The Authoritative Self. Listening In on the YHWH mlk Psalms. Listening In on the Royal Psalms. Listening In to the Early Church. Listening In to Contemporary Culture -- Ch. 3. The Contextual Self. Listening In to the Korahite Songs of Zion. Listening In to the Early Church. Listening In to Contemporary Culture. Listening In to the Asaphite Psalms. Listening In to the Early Church.
Review: "Every reader of the biblical text, Stephen Breck Reid contends, places it in the context of other texts and narratives, whether they be the stories of the reader's own experiences, or the broader myths and communal narratives of their culture. The value of such a reading is that it helps render the Bible intelligible in our contemporary context. The danger, however, is that we will import false and destructive elements from our cultural context into our understanding of the Scriptures."--BOOK JACKET. "Attitudes and expectations drawn from the dominant culture of North America often create just such a distortion in our understanding of God's self-revelation in the Scriptures. To challenges these false perceptions Stephen Breck Reid proposes a multicultural reading of the Bible. Focusing on the Psalms, and specifically what the psalter has to say about what it means to be human, Reid demonstrates that many inadequate and harmful assumptions about the text drawn from the dominant culture can be offset by readings from African American, Latino, and Asian American cultural sources."--BOOK JACKET. "Making use of recent historical, critical, literary, and rhetorical scholarship into the psalter, and combining it with an imaginative reading of African American, Latino, Asian American, and other nondominant cultural materials, Reid provides a compelling glimpse of the promise of a multicultural reading of the Scriptures."--BOOK JACKET.
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Ch. 1. The Conflictual Self. Listening In to the Psalms. Listening In at the Foot of the Cross. Listening In to Contemporary Culture -- Ch. 2. The Authoritative Self. Listening In on the YHWH mlk Psalms. Listening In on the Royal Psalms. Listening In to the Early Church. Listening In to Contemporary Culture -- Ch. 3. The Contextual Self. Listening In to the Korahite Songs of Zion. Listening In to the Early Church. Listening In to Contemporary Culture. Listening In to the Asaphite Psalms. Listening In to the Early Church.

"Every reader of the biblical text, Stephen Breck Reid contends, places it in the context of other texts and narratives, whether they be the stories of the reader's own experiences, or the broader myths and communal narratives of their culture. The value of such a reading is that it helps render the Bible intelligible in our contemporary context. The danger, however, is that we will import false and destructive elements from our cultural context into our understanding of the Scriptures."--BOOK JACKET. "Attitudes and expectations drawn from the dominant culture of North America often create just such a distortion in our understanding of God's self-revelation in the Scriptures. To challenges these false perceptions Stephen Breck Reid proposes a multicultural reading of the Bible. Focusing on the Psalms, and specifically what the psalter has to say about what it means to be human, Reid demonstrates that many inadequate and harmful assumptions about the text drawn from the dominant culture can be offset by readings from African American, Latino, and Asian American cultural sources."--BOOK JACKET. "Making use of recent historical, critical, literary, and rhetorical scholarship into the psalter, and combining it with an imaginative reading of African American, Latino, Asian American, and other nondominant cultural materials, Reid provides a compelling glimpse of the promise of a multicultural reading of the Scriptures."--BOOK JACKET.

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