Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaching biblical interpretation -- Biblical interpretation Coram Deo -- Listening and biblical interpretation -- Biblical interpretation and biblical theology -- The story of our world -- The development of biblical theology -- The story of biblical interpretation -- The traditions within which we read -- Early and medieval Jewish biblical interpretation -- Renaissance, reformation, and modernity -- Canon -- Biblical interpretation and the academic disciplines -- Philosophy, hermeneutics, and biblical interpretation -- History -- Literature -- Theology -- Scripture and the university : the ecology of christian scholarship -- The goal of biblical interpretation -- The "Epistle" to the Hebrews : but we do see Jesus -- Preaching the Bible for all it's worth : the resurrection of the Sermon and the Incarnation of the Christ.