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Cultural interpretation: reorienting New Testament criticism

For those who are interested in understanding how to read and use the Bible in ways that are neither limited by literalism nor disempowered by a cold higher criticism, this is a very helpful book.
Early on, this book includes a discussion of communication theories that is probably more complex and academic than most readers will find helpful. But, when he moves past this, Blount illustrates how the Bible is well deployed in popular settings like traditional "Negro spirituals," Ernesto Cardenal's work with the Nicaraguan peasants of Solentiname, and Tom Skinner's urban American revolutionary preaching.
Blount is certainly supportive of academic higher critical study of the Bible but he is also convinced that this is not the only way to use the Bible.
Blount argues that Scripture has many interpretations. Since, according to his theory of communications..

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Call Number
225.6 BLO c
Publisher
Minneapolis : Fortress Press.,
Collation
x,222p.; 22 cm.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
0-8006-2859-4
Classification
225.6
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NEW TESTAMENT - CRITICISM
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Statement of Responsibility
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