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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and indexes
Integral and differential hermeneutics - A.K.M. Adam -- - Toward a postmodern hermeneutica sacra : guiding considerations in choosing between competing plausible interpretations of scripture - Charles H. Cosgrove -- - Scriptural criticism as a practice of biblical studies : conceiving a commentary on Romans - Daniel Patte -- - Culture and intersubjectivity as criteria for negotiating meanings in cross-cultural interpretations -- - Khiok-Khng Yeo -- - Watching out for the watchmen (Song of Songs 5.7) : how I hold myself accountable - Carole R. Fontaine -- - Paul as liberator and oppressor : how should we evaluate diverse views of First Corinthians? - Robert C. Tannehill -- - Violence for the sake of social justice? : Narrative, ethics and indeterminacy in Moses' slaying of the Egyptian (Exodus 2.11-15) - Dennis T. Olson -- - Dealing with rape (in) narrative (Genesis 34) : ethics of the other and a text in conflict - Frank M. Yamada -- - Abraham's "heretical" imperative : a response to Jacques Derrida - Mark G. Brett -- - Choosing between twos : apocalyptic hermeneutics in science fiction, the radical right and recent historical Jesus scholarship - Jeffrey L. Staley
The Meanings We Choose is an engagement with responsible bible reading-Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament texts-for the past as well as for the present and future. Its stated perspectives are multi-denominational Christian but the implications of such readings go far beyond a specific confessional framework. In the present political climate the aware, responsible "personal" is meaningful for any community, confessedly religious as well as otherwise. While the articles collected in this volume, broadly speaking, can and perhaps should be compartmentalized as ideological criticism, the
