Exploring the Bible
About this ebook
In Exploring the Bible, preseminarians and other students about to begin training in ministry join sage guides and scholars Eric D. Barreto and Michael J. Chan on a journey through Scripture. More than simply a practical guide to reading the Bible, this book will help readers claim their unique interpretive perspective and discern a living word from God.
We never read the Bible by ourselves. In the encounter of ancient texts and people today, we discern alongside others how these texts speak into our communities. Contexts matter. Histories matter. Cultures matter. Peoples matter. All these matter in interpretation when we seek to proclaim some word of gospel about a God who has breathed life into us. Barreto and Chan invite us to bring our full, authentic selves to a text that will affirm and challenge us, confirm and transform us, delight and concern us. There, God speaks, and we can hear God’s word in a new way.
About the author
Eric D. Barreto is Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Ethnic Negotiations: The Function of Race and Ethnicity in Acts 16 (2010), a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, WorkingPreacher.org, and EntertheBible.org, and editor of Thinking Theologically (2015), Writing Theologically (2015), and Reading Theologically (2014), all from Fortress Press.
Michael J. Chan is assistant professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is published in numerous scholarly journals and contributed to The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life (2012). He serves on the Bible Odyssey Editorial Board for the Society of Biblical Literature.
