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6.121: Top 5 Things to Know About the Bible to Interpret it Well?

Today, our theologians will answer the listener-submitted question, "What are the Top 5 Things to Know About the Bible to Interpret it Well?"

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Welcome to season six of Enter the Bible, a podcast where we share “Everything You Wanted to Know about the Bible…but were afraid to ask.”

Mary Hinkle Shore is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and a former professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary. Her work has appeared in The Christian Century, Journal for Preachers, Word & World, and on Working Preacher. She lives in Brevard, North Carolina, and continues to be a frequent speaker at church events.

Today, our theologians will answer the listener-submitted question, “What are the Top 5 Things to Know About the Bible to Interpret it Well?”

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Top 5 Things to Know About the Bible to Interpret it Well

  • You cannot break the book, so be bold
  • You are not alone
  • Genre matters
  • Who? What? Where? When?
  • Look for God in Scripture

Topics, themes, and figures mentioned

  • History of Interpretation
  • Cloud of Witnesses
  • Christian Tradition
  • Interpretive Community
  • Work of the Holy Spirit
  • Bible as Library

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Mary Hinkle Shore

Mary Hinkle Shore is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and a former professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary. Her work has appeared in The Christian Century, Journal for Preachers, Word & World, and on Working Preacher. She lives in Brevard, North Carolina, and continues to be a frequent speaker at church events.

She especially enjoys working with seminarians, clergy and lay preachers on biblical interpretation and the moves between text and sermon. Shore completed a Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke University, and also holds a Master of Divinity from Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

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Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, Word & World and the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.

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Katie Langston

Katie Langston is a doubter by nature and a believer by grace. She grew up Mormon in a small Utah town and still isn't sure she fits in anywhere sophisticated enough to have a Target. She's the author of Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace, an acclaimed spiritual memoir about her conversion to orthodox Christianity. Katie works as the director of digital strategy for Luther Seminary's innovation team, where she oversees digital projects aimed at cultivating vibrant Christian spirituality in a post-modern, post-Christian cultural context.

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