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Author Douglass, Eric J., M. Div., author

Title Reading the Bible ethic : recovering the voice in the text / by Eric J. Douglass
Published Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014
©2014
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Description 1 online resource
Series Biblical Interpretation Series
Biblical interpretation series.
Contents Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The Disappearing Author; Chapter 2 Writing as an Intentional Act; Chapter 3 Subjectivity, Texts, and Creation; Chapter 4 Reading as an Intentional Act; Chapter 5 Problems in the Reader's Paradise; Chapter 6 Connecting the Author and the Text; Excursus: The Ideal Communication Situation; Chapter 7 Intentional Ways of Reading; Chapter 8 A Way Forward; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary In <i>Reading the Bible Ethically</i>, Eric Douglass takes account of the author's subjective contributions, so that the text functions as the author's voice. Dealing with a voice suggests ethical principles, where interpretation doesn't silence or manipulated that voice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible -- Hermeneutics.
Bible -- Reading.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004282866
9004282874 (e-book)
9789004282865
9789004282872 (e-book)