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How We Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture`s Style and Meaning

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2022Description: 198p illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802878090
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • B45 23/eng/20220126 V591
Other classification:
  • REL006400 | LIT004190
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents Introduction: On How to Read the Bible and Why We Need to Know It -- Part One: The Bits and Pieces of Reading -- 1. Words in Context -- 2. Building Categories: The Use of Prototypes -- 3. Attention and Focus: Playing with Figure and Ground -- 4. Perspective and Pointing the Way: Deixis -- 5. Grammar and Cognitive Grammar -- Part Two: Mapping Corresponding Dots -- 6. What Comes Next: The Predictability of Schemas and Scripts -- 7. How We See the Text: Mental Spaces and Blends -- 8. Connecting the Unrelated: The Ubiquity of Metaphor -- 9. Connecting the Related: The Power of Metonymy -- Part Three: The Process of Reading a Text -- 10. Reading in Context: The Role of Discourse Worlds -- 11. Reading as Imagining Different Worlds: The Meaning of Possible Worlds -- 12. Reading as Process: Building Text Worlds.
Summary: "A handbook on reading the Bible that explores the interaction between the cues of the text and the context of the reader through key stylistic elements"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "The Bible is interpreted in a variety of ways and through a myriad of lenses. But how we interpret Scripture depends first of all on how we read it. This handbook focuses on the process of reading itself, taking a cognitive-stylistic approach grounded in recent research on language and the mind. Through accessible explanations of twelve key stylistic elements, How We Read the Bible provides all who study Scripture with the tools to understand what happens when we read and draw meaning from biblical texts. Rather than problematizing the divide between authors from the ancient world and a modern-day audience, Karolien Vermeulen and Elizabeth Hayes bridge the gap by exploring the interaction between the cues of the text and the context of the reader. With numerous examples from the Old and New Testaments and helpful suggestions for further study, How We Read the Bible can be used within any framework of biblical study-historical, theological, literary, and others-as a pathway to meeting Scripture on its own terms"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents Introduction: On How to Read the Bible and Why We Need to Know It -- Part One: The Bits and Pieces of Reading -- 1. Words in Context -- 2. Building Categories: The Use of Prototypes -- 3. Attention and Focus: Playing with Figure and Ground -- 4. Perspective and Pointing the Way: Deixis -- 5. Grammar and Cognitive Grammar -- Part Two: Mapping Corresponding Dots -- 6. What Comes Next: The Predictability of Schemas and Scripts -- 7. How We See the Text: Mental Spaces and Blends -- 8. Connecting the Unrelated: The Ubiquity of Metaphor -- 9. Connecting the Related: The Power of Metonymy -- Part Three: The Process of Reading a Text -- 10. Reading in Context: The Role of Discourse Worlds -- 11. Reading as Imagining Different Worlds: The Meaning of Possible Worlds -- 12. Reading as Process: Building Text Worlds.

"A handbook on reading the Bible that explores the interaction between the cues of the text and the context of the reader through key stylistic elements"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Bible is interpreted in a variety of ways and through a myriad of lenses. But how we interpret Scripture depends first of all on how we read it. This handbook focuses on the process of reading itself, taking a cognitive-stylistic approach grounded in recent research on language and the mind. Through accessible explanations of twelve key stylistic elements, How We Read the Bible provides all who study Scripture with the tools to understand what happens when we read and draw meaning from biblical texts. Rather than problematizing the divide between authors from the ancient world and a modern-day audience, Karolien Vermeulen and Elizabeth Hayes bridge the gap by exploring the interaction between the cues of the text and the context of the reader. With numerous examples from the Old and New Testaments and helpful suggestions for further study, How We Read the Bible can be used within any framework of biblical study-historical, theological, literary, and others-as a pathway to meeting Scripture on its own terms"-- Provided by publisher.

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