__"A guide as wise as it is accessible"__   
"Robbie Castleman here displays the still burning heart of a college professor thrilled to talk to students on the road, in a classroom, or through these pages about how to open the Scriptures to hear God's word. This book, not least by its many practical examples, will help students to see the big biblical picture and to learn skills for both carefully observing and faithfully participating in it. This is a fitting culmination to a teaching career devoted to enflaming a passion for studying Scripture in myriad undergrad hearts and minds."  
--__Kevin J. Vanhoozer__, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School  
  
"Castleman offers clear and concise guidance for disciples embarking on the journey of reading and applying the God-breathed word to their lives. By directing our attention to observing the text itself--the genre and canonical shape of the Old and New Testaments--while at the same time tuning our ears to hear the voice of the Triune God in Scripture, Castleman gives readers a guide as wise as it is accessible for profitable reading. Take up and read this excellent, theologically careful introduction to interpretation, but more, take up the God-breathed word it points to throughout."  
--__Darian Lockett__, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University  
  
"Castleman draws readers into a transformative engagement with Scripture. She sets the Bible in the context of God's overall revelation, including creation, the history of Israel and the early church, the various literary genres through which that revelation is expressed (with particular attention to the Gospels), the canon, and the role that our contemporary setting plays in understanding God's word. This clear, practical, and informative book will help all Scripture readers."  
--__James R. Edwards__, Whitworth University  
  
"Castleman is an outstanding teacher who boasts generations of grateful students (including me), and with this book she reaches yet another level of influence as an author. Interpreting the God-Breathed Word is a virtuoso effort aimed at helping all of us study the Scriptures."  
--__Hunter Baker__, Union University

__Robbie F. Castleman__ (DMin, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary) is professor emeritus of biblical studies at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. She is the author of Story-Shaped Worship, New Testament Essentials, Parenting in the Pew, and a number of successful Bible study guides.

This biblical interpretation textbook provides an accessible introduction to the latest approaches in evangelical hermeneutics. Having many years' experience teaching hermeneutics to undergraduates, Robbie Castleman explains complex themes in an engaging way. She addresses all the current schools of thought in contemporary evangelical hermeneutics and incorporates recent important trends in biblical interpretation. This book helps students recognize the living Word as they read and study Scripture as an act of being engaged by the triune God of grace who breathed and still breathes "the word of the Lord."

This biblical interpretation textbook provides an accessible introduction to the latest approaches in evangelical hermeneutics.

__Contents__  
Introduction  
1. Hearing Scripture: What Does the Text Say and How Does It Say It?  
2. Once upon a Time: Hearing Scripture as Story  
3. The First Voice: Faith Comes by Hearing  
4. The Second Voice: Hearing through the Ears of the First Audience  
5. The Third Voice: Responding to the God-Breathed Word  
6. Meditation in a Canonical Toolshed: Seeing the Light by the Light  
Conclusion: Wisdom--Participation in the God-Breathed Word  
Appendix: Growing a Library  
Indexes

Castleman, Robbie F.

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Hearing Scripture

2. Once upon a Time

3. The First Voice

4. The Second Voice

5. The Third Voice

6. Meditation in a Canonical Toolshed

Conclusion

Appendix

Scripture Index

Subject Index

Back Cover

\["Looking to study that Bible as it was meant to be read?","This book introduces readers to the field of evangelical hermeneutics","Interpreting the God-Breathed Word helps you know the Bible as truly God-breathed"\]

Introduction  
1\. Hearing Scripture: What Does the Text Say and How Does It Say It?  
2\. Once upon a Time: Hearing Scripture as Story  
3\. The First Voice: Faith Comes by Hearing  
4\. The Second Voice: Hearing through the Ears of the First Audience  
5\. The Third Voice: Responding to the God-Breathed Word  
6\. Meditation in a Canonical Toolshed: Seeing the Light by the Light  
Conclusion: Wisdom--Participation in the God-Breathed Word  
Appendix: Growing a Library  
Indexes

Showing how to read the Bible as more than just a "good book", this study is a clear primer to the study of evangelical hermeneutics.

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