The Bible and its readers / edited by Wim Beuken, SeÇı Freyne and Anton Weiler. - London : Philadelphia : SCM Press ; Trinity Press International, c1991. - xvii, 127 p. ; 22 cm. - Concilium, 1991/1 0010-5236 ; . - Concilium (Glen Rock, N.J.) ; 1991/1. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Challenges of text and reader to the historical critical method / Ben F. Meyer -- Call of Abraham as read by Jews and Christians / Albert van der Heide -- Bible as read in the early church : patristic exegesis and its presuppositions / Charles Kannengiesser -- Treatment of the Bible in Judaism / Gunter Stemberger -- Readers of scripture and hearers of the word in the mediaeval church / Pim Valkenberg -- Sixteenth-century reformers and the Bible / Cornelis Augustijn -- Biblical studies in the eighteenth century. From the letter to the figure / Jean-Robert Armogathe -- Magisterium and the Bible : North American experience / Christine E. Gudorf -- Uses and abuses of the Bible in the liturgy and preaching / Sean McEvenue -- 'Listening to what the spirit is saying to the churches.' Popular interpretation of the Bible in Brazil / Carlos Mesters -- Plurality of readers and a possibility of a shared vision / David Tracy.

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Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible--Use.
Bible--Reading.

BS511.2 / .B486 1991

220.09 Bib 1991