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The state of teaching biblical interpretation in colleges and seminaries is generally a mess, and many conventional approaches can be alarming for religious students. The sources of this difficulty are wide ranging, but a quick summary would include at least the following: jargon that is unnecessarily technical; competing and contradictory methodologies; and a failure on the part of Biblical scholarship to demonstrate the direct relevance of its methods to the pastoral life of the Church. As a consequence, biblical scholarship is often opaque at best and distressing at worst to the student and beginning theologian. And because pastors and lay people are trained within this cobweb of methods, they are often functionally unable to draw clear conclusions from most teaching resources. Jerry Camery-Hoggatt addresses this problem with several solutions: a return to a conscious affirmation of authorial intention as the beginning place for interpretation; a careful examination of the actual workings of communication; a concept of __text__ to include the assumptions and cultural knowledge upon which the text depends for meaningful communication; an examination of the various academic discip

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Author

Jerry Camery-Hoggatt

Publisher

Abingdon Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780687642755

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible

Rating

3.8 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14