Interpreting the Bible Common Readings
Achtemeier, Paul J. “Two Contemporary Views Considered.” Pp. 28-63 in Inspiration and Authority: Nature and Function of Christian Scripture. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson, 1999. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]
Borg, Marcus J. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001: 21-36 [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]
Boyd, Gregory A. and Paul R. Eddy. Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002, pp. 225-235. http://ezproxy.messiah.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/messiah-ebooks/reader.action?docID=5249027&ppg=225
Burgess, John P. “A Piety of the Word.” pp. 58-78 in Why Scripture Matters: Reading the Bible in a Time of Church Conflict. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]
Epp-Tiessen, Esther. “Conquering the Land.” Pages 62-74 in Under Vine and Fig Tree: Biblical Theologies of Land and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Edited by Alain Epp Weaver. Telford, Pa.: Cascadia 2007. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]
Mueller, James R. “The Place and Significance of the Apocrypha.” Pp. 1005-1007 in The Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha. Edited by M. Jack Suggs, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and James R. Mueller. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve] [BS192.16.A1 1992 .N48]
Say Pa, Anna May. “Reading Ruth 3:1-5 from an Asian Woman’s Perspective.” Pages 47-59 in Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld. Edited by Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler. Louisville: Westminister John Knox, 2006. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]
Seibert, Eric A. “Evaluating Disturbing Divine Behavior by the God Jesus Reveals: Toward a Christocentric Hermeneutic.” Pp. 183-207 in Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]
Shanks, Hershel. “The Biblical Minimalists: Expunging Ancient Israel’s Past.” Bible Review 13 (June 1997): 32-39, 50-52. [Missing from library collection; Request through interlibrary loan]
Swartley, Willard M. Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1983, pp. 240-242. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]
Warrior, Robert Allen. “A Native American Perspective: Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians.” Pages 235-241 in Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World. 3rd edition. Edited by R. S. Sugirtharajah. Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis, 2006. Warrior, Robert Allen. First published as “Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians: Deliverance, Conquest, and Liberation Theology Today,” in Christianity and Crisis 49 (1989): 261-65. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]
Wright, Christopher J. H. The God I Don’t Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008, pp. 86-108. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk – Course Reserve]