New paradigms for Bible study :

New paradigms for Bible study : the Bible in the third millennium / edited by Robert M. Fowler, Edith Blumhofer, and Fernando F. Segovia. - New York : T & T Clark International, c2004. - xi, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : the challenge of new paradigms for Bible study / This is not a Bible : dispelling the mystique of words for the future of biblical interpretation / Digital media as cultural metaphor / Entering sacred digital space : seeking to distinguish the dreamer and the dream / The second coming of holy writ : niche Bibles and the manufacture of market segments / Packaging the Word, peddling holy writ : Canongate and their pocket-sized Bibles / "Hidden in plain view" : postcolonial interrogations, a poetics of location, and African American biblical scholarship / Finding a home for Ruth : gender, sexuality, and the politics of otherness / Bible translation and ethnic mobilization in Africa / Evangelicals and the Bible : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / The Bible and popular culture : engaging sacred text in a world of others / Rethinking local Bible study in a postmodern era / Afterword : between the past and what has nearly arrived / Robert M. Fowler -- A.K.M. Adam -- Robert S. Fortner -- Richard Thieme -- Mark Fackler -- R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Abraham Smith -- Kwok Pui-lan -- Lamin Sanneh -- John G. Stackhouse, Jr. -- Mary E. Hess -- Randy G. Litchfield -- Martin E. Marty.

0567026604 (pbk.)

2004006912


Bible--Study and teaching.

BS600.3 / .N48 2004

220.071 F787N