The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation - 9780415180993

Taylor & Francis

Reading and interpreting the Bible, whether as an 'ordinary' or critical reader, has always been strongly influenced by a person's own experience.\nThey demonstrate the variety of ways in which the Bible can have meaning for different people. The contributors offer challenging new perspectives on the ancient biblical books and individual texts of the Torah, the prophets, the Gospels, (Pauline) letters and Revelation. The Personal Voice in Biblical Scholarship contains the original essays of distinguished Jewish and Christian scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament from all over the world and a variety of backgrounds.\n > Introduction 1 The guarded personal voice of a male European-American biblical scholar 2 My personal voice: The making of a postcolonial critic 3 The function of the non-fulfilled promises: Reading the Pentateuch from the perspective of the Latin-American oppressed people 4 Mark\u2019s open ending and following Jesus on the way: An autobiographical int.