The Sacred Text : : Excavating the Texts, Exploring the Interpretations, and Engaging the Theologies of the Christian Scriptures / / ed. by Michael Pahl, Michael Bird.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bird, Jennifer G.,; Bird, Michael F.,; Bokedal, Tomas,; Congdon, David W.,; Grant, Jamie A.,; Hamilton, James M.,; Jobes, Karen H.,; Kalantzis, George,; Moritz, Thorsten,; Pahl, Michael W.,; Pitre, Brant,; Poirier, John C.,; Shillaker, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Bird, Michael,; Pahl, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Précis Portfolios
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; CONTRIBUTORS --; PREFACE --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION: FROM MANUSCRIPT TO MP3 --; THE HISTORY OF THE TEXTS --; 1. THE SEPTUAGINT AS SCRIPTURE IN THE EARLY CHURCH --; 2. SCRIPTURE IN THE SECOND CENTURY --; 3. SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION: SEEKING A MIDDLE PATH --; 4. SCRIPTURE AND CANON --; THE INTERPRETATION OF THE TEXTS --; 5. SCRIPTURE AND BIBLICAL CRITICISM --; 6. SCRIPTURE AND THEOLOGICAL EXEGESIS --; 7. SCRIPTURE AND POSTMODERN EPISTEMOLOGY --; 8. SCRIPTURE AND NEW INTERPRETIVE APPROACHES: FEMINIST & POST-COLONIAL --; THE THEOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE TEXTS AS SCRIPTURE --; 9. CATHOLIC DOCTRINE ON SCRIPTURE: INSPIRATION, INERRANCY, AND INTERPRETATION --; 10. SCRIPTURE IN EASTERN ORTHODOXY: CANON, TRADITION, AND INTERPRETATION --; 11. STILL SOLA SCRIPTURA: AN EVANGELICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SCRIPTURE --; 12. THE WORD AS EVENT: BARTH AND BULTMANN ON SCRIPTURE --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463216481; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463216481
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Michael Pahl, Michael Bird.

The Sacred Text presents an introduction to historical, interpretive, and theological issues relating to the Christian Scriptures. It presents an overview of the formation of the canon, discusses different strategies for interpretation, and describes how Scripture functions in different theological traditions.