Social Location And Biblical Interpretation In The United States

Download or read book Reading from this Place: Social location and biblical interpretation in global perspective written by Fernando F. Segovia and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical studies are proving to be a test case of the large interpretive issues of how one's "location"--social, cultural, ethnic and gender--affects one's reading of the text and its import. Segovia and Tolbert gather 19 leading biblical interpreters from around the globe to address the complex hermeneutical and religious questions attendant to this paradigm shift.