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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provided a number of new
paradigms for reading the Bible that challenged the then prevailing
literal or allegorical model of reading the Bible. This new
biblical criticism, whose influence has fostered common ways of
talking about readings of Scripture, demonstrated the ways that the
biblical texts were pastiches of literary sources and forms, often
edited by later hands to form the biblical book now in the canon.
In the late twentieth century, the number of methods for reading
the Bible proliferated and by the end of the century there were
almost as many models for reading Scripture as there were readers
of Scripture. These models arose mostly out of literary criticism
of the Bible and thus there were a variety of deconstructionist
readings that focused closely on the text, as well as rhetorical
readings that focused on literary forms of particular units of
Scripture. The greatest difference between biblical criticism in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the criticism of the
late twentieth century was the latter's increasing focus on
politics and historicism. Thus, in the last decades of the
twentieth century, feminist criticism, postcolonial criticism, and
new historicism became models of reading Scripture. The editors
have gathered essays by a number of internationally recognized
scholars, ranging from evangelical biblical critics to postmodern
biblical critics, who explore a variety of models for reading the
Bible in the Third Millennium.
First published in hardcover in 1991, Robert Fowler s Let the
Reader Understand was ahead of its time. Using reader-response
criticism, a pioneering method for reading the Gospel of Mark, he
invited contemporary readers to participate actively in making the
meaning of the Gospel. Ten years later, the importance of this
methodology is clear to all. In Let the Reader Understand Fowler
provides clues to the rhetorical strategies used in Mark, and asks
the reader to be attentive to the ways in which the narrative
weaves its spell. He also demonstrates how the narrative provides
both direction and indirection for the reader through its use of
irony and paradox. Rather than providing a complete exposition of
Mark, Fowler s book offers hints and suggestions about how readers
can read Mark and fashion contemporary meaning for themselves.
Robert M. Fowler is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Religion
Department at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. He is the
author of Loaves and Fishes: The Function of the Feeding Stories in
the Gospel of Mark and is a contributor to The Postmodern Bible.
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