TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Jeannine K. TI - Scripture as communication: introducing biblical hermeneutics SN - 9780801027888 (pbk.) AV - BS476 .B68 2007 U1 - 220.601 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - Baker Academic KW - Bible KW - Hermeneutics KW - Communication KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-303) and indexes; Introduction. Scripture as communicative act -- Terminology and context for hermeneutics -- A communication model of hermeneutics -- Authors, texts, readers : historical movements and reactions -- Some affirmations about meaning from a communication model -- Developing textual meaning: implications, effects, and other ways of going "beyond" -- An invitation to active engagement : the reader and the Bible -- Genre and communication -- The language of the Bible -- The social world of the Bible -- Literary context, intertextuality, and canon -- Conceptualizing contextualization -- Contextualization : understanding scripture incarnationally -- Appendices: A. Exegesis guidelines -- B. Historical criticism -- C. Parallelism in Hebrew poetry -- D. Epistles : following an author's flow of thought -- E. How to go about topical studies ER -