A handbook to Old Testament exegesis / William P. Brown. [print]

PART I: GETTING STARTED A hermeneutical adventure Self-exegesis First impressions

PART II: ANALYTICAL APPROACHES Translation Text-critical analysis Stylistic analysis I: poetry Stylistic analysis II: narrative Structural analysis Compositional analysis Comparative analysis Literary analysis Historical analysis Canonical analysi Interlude From text to table

PART III: READINGS IN PLACE Science Ecology Gender I Gender II Empire Minority Disability Theology

PART IV: COMMUNICATION Retelling the text.

Designed for both Hebrew and non-Hebrew students, A Handbook to Old Testament Exegesis offers a fresh, hands-on introduction to exegesis of the Old Testament. William P. Brown begins not with the biblical text itself but with the reader, helping students to identify their own interpretive lenses before engaging the biblical text. Brown guides the student through a wide variety of interpretive approaches, including modern methodologies--feminist, womanist, Latino/a, queer, postcolonial, disability, and ecological approaches--alongside more traditional methods. This allows students to critically reflect on themselves as bona fide interpreters. While covering a wide range of biblical passages, Brown also highlights two common biblical texts throughout the work to help show how each interpretive approach highlights different dimensions of the same texts. Students will appreciate the value of an empathetic inquiry of Scripture that is both inclusive of others and textually in-depth. AMAZON Link to source of summary

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William P. Brown is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. He has published numerous works, including Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor and Ecclesiastes in the Interpretation series. He also serves on the editorial board for the esteemed Old Testament Library series, published by Westminster John Knox Press. ~ Amazon