While I am working on my core task of interpreting biblical texts, and responding to suggestions from readers, the creative process of this website will also be responding to my reading in scholarly literature in the field of biblical hermeneutics. Hence I am publishing my reading list: some books that have influenced my thinking already, and even more than I have acquired at the start of this project and intend to read as I go. Obviously, I am open to suggestions here, but will have to exercise some discrimination as well, if I am to survive.
SO … here is my list so far, in alphabetical order of authors. I intend to write some sub-pages as I go, briefly describing each book and summarizing its main lessons for me. This page, and each sub-page, will provide opportunities for readers’ comments on the same books.
The Reading List …
Barton, John, The Nature of Biblical Criticism, Westminster John Knox Press, 2007
Brown, Jeannine K., Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics, Baker Academic 2007
Countryman, L. William, Interpreting the Truth: Changing the Paradigm of Biblical Studies, Trinity Press International, 2003
Dockery, David S., Biblical interpretation Then and Now: Contemporary Hermeneutics in the Light of the Early Church. Baker Books, 1992
Davis, Ellen F. and Hays, Richard B. eds., The Art of Reading Scripture, Eerdmanns, 2003
Goldingay, John, Models for Interpretation of Scripture, Eerdmanns, 1995
Goldsworthy, Graeme, Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation, IVP Academic, 2006
Hirsch, E.D. Jr., Validity in Interpretation, Yale University Press, 1967; The Aims of Interpretation, University of Chicago Press, 1976
Kaiser, Walter C. and Silva, Moises, Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics: the Search for Meaning, Zondervan 2007
Osborne, Grant R., The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation, Inter Varsity Press, 2006
Thiselton, Anthony C., Thiselton on Hermeneutics: Collected Works with New Essays, Eerdmanns, 2006; Hermeneutics; an Introduction, Eerdmanns, 2009
Westphal, Merold, Whose Community? Which Interpretation? Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church, Baker Academic, 2009
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