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Scripture and Its Interpretation: A Global, Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Top-notch biblical scholars from around the world and from various Christian traditions offer a fulsome yet readable introduction to the Bible and its interpretation. The book concisely introduces the Old and New Testaments and related topics and examines a wide variety of historical and contemporary interpretive approaches, including African, African-American, Asian, and Latino streams.

This chapter is devoted to the complex topic of the canon of the Bible. More accurately, it is about the canons (plural) of the Bible, for as we have already seen in various chapters, there always has been, and still is, more than one scriptural canon. The chapter begins with the question of defining the word, looks briefly at the Jewish canons, and then examines in more depth (because of more data) the various Christian
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