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Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jeannine Brown believes that communication is at the heart of what we do when we open the Bible—that we are actively engaging God in a conversation that can be life changing. In this basic guide to the theory and practice of biblical hermeneutics, Brown proposes a communication model as an effective approach to interpreting the Bible. Drawing upon thinkers such as Kevin Vanhoozer, Nicholas...

cultivate. Others are necessitated by Scripture’s cultural distance. We might call all of these “guidelines for reading at a distance,” and they include attention to genre, literary context, and social setting.10 The genre of a biblical text or book refers to its classification as a specific kind of literature. There are many types of literature in the Bible, including, but not limited to, narrative, poetry, epistle, legal texts, and apocalyptic literature. Each of these genres can, in turn,
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