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Scripture and Its Readers: Readings of Israel's Story in Nehemiah 9, Ezekiel 20, and Acts 7
Contributor(s): Ooi, Vincent K. H. (Author)
ISBN: 1575063522     ISBN-13: 9781575063522
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
OUR PRICE:   $36.58  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General
- History | Ancient - General
Dewey: 220.6
LCCN: 2014044211
Series: Journal of Theological Interpretation Supplements
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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That readers and biblical texts are somehow linked in a mutually transformative relationship is hardly a novel perception, especially in contexts where the Christian Bible has been received as normative Scripture for faithful worship and living. This study focuses on an aspect of this relationship and wrestles with it not only in theory, but also in practice by asking: How may a reader who wishes to read the Christian Bible as Scripture well today be formed; and how may interpretations of Scripture themselves inform such concern?

Vincent Ooi begins by showing that such concern is not only contemporary but integral to Christian traditions of reading Scripture, and that it is only recently receiving some renewed scholarly attention. He reviews some of these recent works before setting out his own approach from the perspective of theological interpretation of Scripture. He then demonstrates his approach via close exegetical engagement with three biblical texts, namely Nehemiah 9:6-37, Ezekiel 20:5-32, and Acts 7:2-60, which offer different inner-canonical readings of Scripture in the form of distinctive retellings of Israel's story. He first considers how these texts portray readers of Scripture and use scriptural traditions in relation to the wider context of the Christian canon; he then discusses what they, individually and in concert, might suggest as significant for shaping readers seeking to faithfully appropriate Scripture today. The posture of prayer, the pulse of liturgy, and the patterning of Christ are among the things proposed as formatively significant.