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Description edit
Eat This Book challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God’s revelation, and to live them as we read them. With warmth and wisdom Peterson offers greatly needed, down-to-earth counsel on spiritual reading. In these pages he draws readers into a fascinating conversation on... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- New York
- Israel
- Egypt
- Jerusalem
- Canaan
- London
- Ugarit
- Aramaic
- Alexandria
- England
- Palestine
- Philadelphia
- San Francisco
- Syria
Table of Contents edit
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. "The Forbidding Discipline of Spiritual Reading"
I. Eat This Book
2. The Holy Family at Table with Holy Scripture
3. Scripture As Text: Learning What God Reveals
The Revealing and Revealed God
The Holy Trinity: Keeping It Personal
Depersonalizing the Text
The Replacement Trinity
Hoshia
4. Scripture As Form: Following the Way of Jesus
The Story
The Sentence
5. Scripture As Script: Playing Our Part in the Spirit
The Uncongenial Bible
The Immense World of the Bible
Obedience
Reading Scripture Liturgically
Virtuoso Spirituality
II. Lectio Divina
6. Caveat Lector
7. "Ears Thou Hast Dug for Me"
Lectio
Meditatio
Oratio
Contemplatio
III. The Company of Translators
8. God's Secretaries
Translation into Aramaic
Translation into Greek
Translation into American
9. The Message
Oxyrhynchus and Ugarit
Lost in Translation
Appendix: Some Writers on Spiritual Reading
Index of Subjects and Names
Index of Scripture References
Authors & Contributors edit
- Eugene H. Peterson (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Eerdman's
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9780802829481
Page Count: 186
Publisher: Eerdman's
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9780802829481
Page Count: 186
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 220.071
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