The Virtuous Reader: Old Testament Narrative and Interpretive Virtue
- Michigan Baker Book House 2010
- 270p
- Studies in Theological Interpretation .
includes index and biblioraphy
1. In Pursuit of the Virtues of the Implied Reader of the Old Testament 17 2. Neither Meek nor Modest: The Puzzling Hermeneutics of Humility 45 Numbers 12 (Moses) 3. Wisdom to Discern the Living Interpretation from the Dead 71 1 Kings 3 (Solomon) 4. Like a Hermeneutic in a Cage: The Eclipse of Biblical Trust 103 2 Kings 18 (Hezekiah) 5. Love in the Time of Monotheism: The Blessing of Interpretive Charity 135 Ruth 1 (Ruth) and 2 Kings 5 (Elisha) 6. Summoned: The Virtue of Receptivity 167 Isaiah 6 (Isaiah) 7. The Virtuous Reader of Old Testament Narrative: From the Implied Reader to the Real Reader 193