 | Bible and Transformation: The Promise of Intercultural Bible Reading Engage the delightful and inspiring, sometimes rough and rocky road to inclusive and transformative Bible reading This book offers the results of research within a new area of discipline--empirical hermeneutics in intercultural perspective. The book includes interpretations from the homeless in Amsterdam, to Indonesia, from African Xhosa readers to Norway, to Madagascar, American youths, Germany, Czech Republic, Colombia, and Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. Features: Interpretations from ordinary readers in more than twenty-five countries Background introduction with history of the text Discussion of intertextual connections with Greco-Roman authorsHans de Wit is Professor and Dom Hélder Câmara Chair for Peace and Liberation, Faculty of Theology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is one of the initiators of a new international project called Through the Eyes of Another: Intercultural Reading of the Bible. Janet Dyk is Senior Researcher, Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer, Faculty of Theology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
