biblical interpretation

Why would we want a higher doctrine of scripture than we have of Jesus?

In 1978, a who’s who of conservative evangelical leaders met in Chicago to draft a statement on biblical inerrancy. It would change the course of church and state.

Biblical scholar Susan Grove Eastman brings the apostle into conversation with today’s world.

Judicial originalism is biblical literalism’s younger cousin.

Stephen Young lets Paul’s letter speak for itself.

Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known.

Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text.

Should scripture inform our ethics? How, and which parts?

If we want our biblical interpretation to align with the fullness of who Christ is, we need new lenses.

The creative retellings in Inspired model an account of inspiration that is as much a spiritual practice as a religious doctrine.

My hermeneutic of suspicion wasn’t enough. I needed a hermeneutic of the hip.

Craig Carter's book makes good points—and undermines them with his use of polemic.

How can preachers and listeners develop a practice of lingering with the text?

Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it?

In God's kingdom, sometimes less is more.

Joshua Jipp's book does something few biblical scholars attempt: it offers explicit proposals for the church.

What scripture means is not reducible to what it once meant.

From creation to Mary Magdalene, Barbara E. Reid offers convincing alternatives to sexist interpretations of scripture.

A new book challenges the scholarly consensus about one of the Hebrew Bible's central stories.

Stephen Greenblatt weaves an impressive—but incomplete—tapestry of interpretations of the story of the Fall.