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A most delightful interview with Anthony Thiselton. If you are interested in New Testament Hermeneutics, watch it!

Really bad.

And Michael Gorman is telling us why.

And while he is at it, he also offers an alternative set of principles – a cruciform hermeneutic– for reading Revelation:

1. Recognize that the central and centering image of Revelation is the lamb that was slaughtered.
   
2. Remember that Revelation was first of all written by a first-century Christian for first-century Christians using first-century literary devices and images.
   
3. Abandon so-called literal, linear approaches to the book as if it were history written in advance, and use an interpretive strategy of analogy rather than correlation.
   
4. Focus on the book’s call to discipleship.
   
5. Place the images of death and destruction in Revelation within the larger framework of hope.

Read his post here as he expounds each point in more details.

[link: cross talk via euangelion]

作者：孫寶玲
出版日期：2008年11月
頁數：528頁
定價：HK$150
書度：152mm (w) x 228mm (h)
ISBN：978-962-79979-2-4

內容介紹：

聖經詮釋不僅是方法工具的探索掌握，且是更深層的省思。本書以「聖經詮釋的意義和實踐」為題，旨不在理出方法，而在於學與思，期杜絕穿鑿附會之流弊。作者縷述先賢的智慧，展現每一個時代的詮釋之歷史性，在適切其獨特處境需要的同時，難免會有其限制。讀者如可以將這些詮釋理論放在其歷史處境，必能更欣賞其優點，也更能掌握其不足之處。

作者在書中將詮釋發展分為三個階段：前考據時期、考據時期、後考據時期，其中不乏具體釋經例子及提出了數個思考重點，幫助讀者學習、思考，為聖經詮釋提供了入門的素材。

[內容介紹：建道]
[HT: littleho, Changing or Remaining]