Here Professor Schreiter completes this interdisciplinary dialogue with a valuable and practical missiological response to these biblical scholars — to Brueggemann who used a social approach to reveal meanings in Scriptural texts and to Gaventa who used a literary approach — with his own semiotic approach which studies signs as bearers of meaning, probing the linguistic depths of a text, and stressing what the Bible can be for mission as well as in mission.
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