“Reading and Interpreting Scripture” ~ Dr Jean-Claude Verrecchia, the Crieff 2015 Study Weekend
Posted in Calendar, MP3, Study, Study Conferences on April 7th, 2015
The Crieff 2015 Study Weekend was presented by Dr Jean-Claude Verrecchia.
Dr Verrecchia is Principal Lecturer in New Testament at Newbold College where he specialises in the Gospels, Hebrews and Biblical Hermeneutics.
His subject was
“Reading and Interpreting Scripture”
and more specifically
“Adventists: Between a mere reading and the risk of interpretation”
The schedule ran as follows:
- Friday
- 6pm, soup and bread at the church
- 7-8:30pm, ‘The Reliable Bible, but God is not the Author’.
Manuscripts, variants, authorship, the ‘myth’ of the original text, translations.
- Sabbath (Saturday)
- 10am: ‘The End of the Gutenberg Galaxy’. The Bible as an oral piece of literature.
- 11:15am: ‘Do You Understand What You Are Reading?’
- 2:30pm: ‘Reading Behind the Text’. The author-centred approach of the Bible (with examples).
- 6pm: General discussion! Informal gathering at Steve and Muriel’s house
- PowerPoint slides for various Sabbath presentations
- Sunday
- 10am: ‘Reading at the Text and in Front of the Text’. Text-centred approach and reader-centred approach (with examples).
Reading List
Jean-Claude recommends the following titles:
- Understanding Scripture: an Adventist Approach, ed. by W. Reid, Biblical Research Institute (Silver Springs, 2006)
- Anthony C. Thiselton, Hermeneutics. An Introduction (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)
- James D.G. Dunn, The Living Word (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009)
- John Barton, The Nature of Biblical Criticism (Louisville: John Knox, 2007)
- N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God (London: SCPK, 2005)
- John H. Walton and D. Brent Sandy, Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority (Downers Grove, IVP, 2013)
- Jean-Claude Verrecchia, Reading the Bible with our Ears, in Faith in Search of Depth and Relevancy. Festschrift in Honor of Dr Bertil Wiklander (Trans European Division, 2014).