Parris, David P.

Reading the Bible with giants : how 2000 years of Biblical interpretation can shed new light on old texts / David Paul Parris. - Second edition. - London: Paternoster, 2015. - xii, 220 p. : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220).

The first historical horizon : the author and the audience -- Words -- The best fish story ever told -- The second historical horizon : a living tradition -- Tradition as a road map of interpretation -- The third historical horizon : reading within a tradition -- Ten reading strategies -- Reception theory : teaching and preaching.

9781625647283 162564728X

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Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.
Bible--Hermeneutics.
Bible--Reading.

BS476 / PAR 2015