Light to Live by
How to Interpret the Bible
Published on 9. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-84427-201-3 (ISBN)
Description
This title provides fresh thinking with stimulating insights. It offers clear principles which readers can apply. It makes current thinking about hermeneutics understandable and relevant. It provides frequent touches of humour. The author is a top academic, OT Lecturer at Durham University, used to making the message easy to understand from his missionary work and his previous job as a teacher at All Nations Christian College. The author is increasingly well known through books and articles.
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Person
Dr Richard Briggs is Tutor in Old Testament and Hermeneutics and Associate MA Director at Cranmer Hall, Durham University. He has worked with Operation Mobilisation in Belgium, done pastoral work in London, and taught at All Nations Christian College. His Phd at Nottingham University looked at 'speech-act' theory as part of hermeneutics. He has also written 'It's been a quiet week in the global village' (Triangle) and 'Reading the Bible wisely (SPCK). He is married with two children.