Deep Exegesis: The Mystery of Reading Scripture. By Peter J. Leithart
Peter J. Leithart is the author of numerous works on literature (Austen, Dante, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare) and the Bible (1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Psalms, Proverbs, the Gospels, 2 Peter and the Johannine epistles). He has also written books on Athanasius, baptism, the eucharist, marriage, politi...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Literature and theology
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 353-355 |
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Book review
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| Summary: | Peter J. Leithart is the author of numerous works on literature (Austen, Dante, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare) and the Bible (1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Psalms, Proverbs, the Gospels, 2 Peter and the Johannine epistles). He has also written books on Athanasius, baptism, the eucharist, marriage, political theology, and other topics. In Deep Exegesis, Leithart sets forth his literary approach to scripture—and his scriptural approach to literature (and everything else)—with finely crafted prose and his customary command of western literature, philosophy, and theology., At the outset, Leithart states his goals as, first, defending a ‘hermeneutics of the letter’ that avoids wooden literalism and, second, drawing interpretive strategies from Jesus and Paul (p. vii). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs020 |