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Though well-known and oft-repeated, the advice to read the Bible "like any other book" fails to acknowledge that different books call for different kinds of reading. The voice of Scripture summons readers to hear and respond to its words as divine address. Not everyone chooses to read the Bible on those terms, but in Reading Sacred Scripture Stephen and Martin Westerholm (father and son) invite their readers to engage seriously with a dozen major Bible interpreters -- ranging from the second century to the twentieth -- who have been attentive to Scripture's voice. After expertly setting forth…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2016Reading Sacred Scripture: Voices from the History of Biblical InterpretationEerdmans · 470 pages · 9780802872296
- Other · English · 2016Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B. · 9781467445047
- Other · English · 2016Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B. · 9781467445511
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