For For students and pastors with specific questions about reading the Bible, the Old Testament especially; not for readers wanting a single systematic hermeneutics.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
Chapters on particular questions about how to interpret the Bible, answered from the Old Testament.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural5 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A companion to Key Questions about Christian Faith (2010), published by Baker Academic in 2011. It gathers his answers, from the Old Testament, to questions about how the Bible is to be read and interpreted, written as a series of separate chapters on particular questions.
