Tsemach, Ehud 2024. How do experts read the Bible? Descriptions of literary and historical approaches to biblical interpretation using thinking-aloud protocols. Journal of Religious Education, Vol. 72 ...
The challenge becomes much more intense when one reads highly artistic texts from a different time and place, such as the Bible. The earliest examples of interpretation we have appear in the Bible ...
The dominant forms of academic biblical interpretation over the last two centuries have been the various methodologies that trade under the term 'historical criticism'. At its most successful, this ...
This perspective has a clear consequence in the interpretation of the Bible: As Scripture addresses the fundamental dramas of the human soul and of creation, it also manifests the actions of ...
Some Christians today are known as liberal Christians. This means they have a less literal interpretation of the Bible, and might not follow all laws in an absolute way. Many, however, still do.
But Shakespeare's audiences were not simply well versed in the Bible's content - they were also steeped in the practices and methods of biblical interpretation. Reformation and counter-reformation ...