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Listening to the Bible - The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation (Hardcover)
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Listening to the Bible - The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation (Hardcover)
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The disengagement of recent academic biblical study from church and
synagogue has been widely noted. Even within the discipline, there
are those who suggest it has lost its way. As the discipline now
stands, is it mainly concerned with studying and listening to the
texts, or with dissecting them in order to examine hypothetical
sources or situations or texts that might lie behind them.
Christopher Bryan seeks to address scholars and students who do not
wish to avoid the challenges of the Enlightenment, but do wish to
relate their work to the faith and mission of the people of God. Is
such a combination still possible? And if so, how is the task of
biblical interpretation to be understood? Bryan traces the history
of modern approaches to the Bible, particularly "historical
criticism," noting its successes and failures-and notably among its
failures, that it has been no more able to protect its
practitioners from (in Jowett's phrase) "bringing to the text what
they found there" than were the openly faith-based approaches of
earlier generations. Basing his work on a wide knowledge of
literature and literary critical theory, and drawing on the
insights of the greatest literary critics of the last hundred
years, notably Erich Auerbach and George Steiner, Bryan asks, what
should be the task of the biblical scholar in the 21st century?
Setting the question within this wider context enables Bryan to
indicate a series of criteria with which biblical interpreters may
do their work, and in the light of which there is no reason why
that work cannot relate faithfully to the Church. This does not
mean that sound biblical interpretation can ignore the specificity
of scientific or historical questions, or dragoon its results into
conformity with a set of ecclesial propositions. It does mean that
in asking those questions, interpreters of the biblical text will
not ignore its setting-in-life in the community of faith; and they
will concede that although textual interpretation has scientific
elements, it is finally an exercise in imagination: an art, and not
a science.
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