Christopher Bryan is C.K. Benedict Professor of New Testament (Emeritus) at University of the South and editor of Sewanee Theological Review.

Listening to the Bible: The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation provides an engaging and erudite account of the situation in which Biblical Studies finds itself in relation to the faith community, and makes intriguing suggestions as to how that situation could be resolved

• Contents ; I. The Division ; II How Did We Get Here? ; III. Why Jowett's Project was Impossible ; IV. The Hermeneutic of Suspicion ; V. So What Do We Do? ; VI. The First Task: Listening to the Individual Voices ; VII. A Digression: "Great Literature?" ; VI. The Second Task: Relating the Parts to the Whole ; 1. The Rule of Faith and the Question of History. ; 2. The Different Voices and Their Different Accounts of the History ; VII. The Third Task: So What Now? ; 1. Why We Must Ask the Question ; 2. The Scriptures as Interpretative Narrative ; 3. The Exercise of Christian Imagination ; VIII. The Drama of the Word ; Epilogue ; Appendix (by David Landon): Speaking the Word: A Guide to Liturgical Reading ; Selected Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

Christopher Bryan is C.K. Benedict Professor of New Testament (Emeritus) at University of the South and editor of Sewanee Theological Review.

Listening to the Bible: The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation provides an engaging and erudite account of the situation in which Biblical Studies finds itself in relation to the faith community, and makes intriguing suggestions as to how that situation could be resolved

• Contents ; I. The Division ; II How Did We Get Here? ; III. Why Jowett's Project was Impossible ; IV. The Hermeneutic of Suspicion ; V. So What Do We Do? ; VI. The First Task: Listening to the Individual Voices ; VII. A Digression: "Great Literature?" ; VI. The Second Task: Relating the Parts to the Whole ; 1. The Rule of Faith and the Question of History. ; 2. The Different Voices and Their Different Accounts of the History ; VII. The Third Task: So What Now? ; 1. Why We Must Ask the Question ; 2. The Scriptures as Interpretative Narrative ; 3. The Exercise of Christian Imagination ; VIII. The Drama of the Word ; Epilogue ; Appendix (by David Landon): Speaking the Word: A Guide to Liturgical Reading ; Selected Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

Christopher Bryan is C.K. Benedict Professor of New Testament (Emeritus) at University of the South and editor of Sewanee Theological Review.

Listening to the Bible: The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation provides an engaging and erudite account of the situation in which Biblical Studies finds itself in relation to the faith community, and makes intriguing suggestions as to how that situation could be resolved

• Contents ; I. The Division ; II How Did We Get Here? ; III. Why Jowett's Project was Impossible ; IV. The Hermeneutic of Suspicion ; V. So What Do We Do? ; VI. The First Task: Listening to the Individual Voices ; VII. A Digression: "Great Literature?" ; VI. The Second Task: Relating the Parts to the Whole ; 1. The Rule of Faith and the Question of History. ; 2. The Different Voices and Their Different Accounts of the History ; VII. The Third Task: So What Now? ; 1. Why We Must Ask the Question ; 2. The Scriptures as Interpretative Narrative ; 3. The Exercise of Christian Imagination ; VIII. The Drama of the Word ; Epilogue ; Appendix (by David Landon): Speaking the Word: A Guide to Liturgical Reading ; Selected Bibliography ; Notes ; Index