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This text provides an assessment of Brevard S. Childs's ""canonical approach"" to biblical interpretation. An analysis of Childs's work identifies a number of historical, hermeneutical and theological issues that are central both to Childs's programme and to the wider methodological debate. These include the adequacy of the historical-critical tools, their relationship to the more recent, ""synchronic"" approaches, the role of the interpreter's own presuppositions, the viability of working from a specific faith-commitment and ways in which the ancient texts can ""speak"" to the modern church. Following a discussion of these questions the text suggests how Childs's programme can be set on a sounder methodological basis. This book is particularly notable for its clarification of Childs' approach, and for its original solutions to a number of central methodological problems.

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'...the illuminating account of Childs makes this a useful contribution to the debate.' Walter Moberly, The Expository times, 1996.

'.. .the illuminating account of Childs makes this a useful contribution to the debate.'<br>Walter Moberly, The Expository times, 1996.<br>

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Paul R. Noble, Ph.D. (1992) in Old Testament Hermeneutics, University of Cambridge, is Part-Time Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Suffolk College, England. He has published several articles on biblical methodology and literary theory, and on the interpretation of Amos.

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