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Description of  The Return of Oral Hermeneutics: As Good Today as It Was for the Hebrew Bible and First-Century Christianity

Have Western exegetes turned an Eastern book into a Western one? Has our fondness for a fixed printed text capable of being analyzed with precision and exactitude blinded us to other hermeneutic possibilities? Does God require all people to be able to analyze grammar to interpret Scripture? Does God assume all people can interpret Scripture through oral means? The authors recognize the effects of centuries of literacy socialization that produced a blind spot in the Western Christian worldthe neglect by most in the academies, agencies, and assemblies of the foundational and forceful role Read more