Reading the Bible Around the World

✍ Scribed by Federico Alfredo Roth; Alice Yafeh-Deigh; Justin Marc Smith; Kay Higuera Smith; Kirsten Sonkyo Oh

• Publisher: InterVarsity Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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It's an exciting time to be reading the Bible. As we increasingly encounter readers with perspectives, experiences, and cultures different from our own, we can incorporate new ideas and approaches to interpreting Scripture. When diverse interpretations from various social locations are gathered together, we gain new vistas and a fuller image of the text.

In Reading the Bible Around the World, a crosscultural team of scholars describes and workshops global readings in biblical interpretation, focusing on passages in both the Old and New Testaments. By presenting a range of readings from different regions and people groups, with particular attention to marginalized groups, the authors demonstrate the importance of contextually sensitive approaches. They help us build up key values for reading Scripture in the twenty-first century: self-awareness, other-awareness, and true dialogue.

Who we are shapes how we read. Guided by...