Both in the academy and in the church, students and teachers find it increasingly difficult to cope with the Bible. We have lost - and need to rediscover - a once-universal ability to read canonic texts in a creative way as a framework for engaging with ultimate questions of God and morality.
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Richard Bauckham , God and the Crisis of Freedom: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives( Louisville, KY/London: Westminster John Knox , 2002), esp. ch. 3 (pp. 50–77), ‘Authority and Scripture'.
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Ellen F. Davis and Richard B. Hays (ed.), The Art of Reading Scripture( Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans , 2003).
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E. Earle Ellis , The Old Testament in Early Christianity(WUNT 54; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck , 1991).
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Pierre Hadot , Philosophy as a Way of Life( Oxford: Blackwell , 1995).
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Nicholas Lash , The Beginning and the End of ‘Religion'( Cambridge: CUP , 1996).
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Kevin Madigan , ‘ Christus Nesciens? Was Christ Ignorant of the Day of Judgement? Arian and Orthodox Interpretation of Mark 13:32 in the Ancient Latin West' (Harvard Theological Review, 96:3, 2003, pp. 255–278 ).
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Gregory Nagy , Homeric Questions( Austin, TX: University of Texas Press , 1996).
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Frances M. Young , The Art of Performance: Towards a Theology of Holy Scripture( London: Darton, Longman & Todd , 1990).
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Frances M. Young , Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture( Cambridge: CUP , 1997).
