Abstract
The Hebrew Bible itself teaches its readers and listeners how to learn. Its pedagogy of social transformation instructs contemporary Christians how to interpret and apply lessons from Scripture in a manner that is consistent with the orientation, priorities and methods inherent in the text. This article demonstrates that relationship and identity are the necessary precursors to biblical education. It then considers the educational perspective for social transformation within the Hebrew Bible. The analysis explores the purpose and process of education for social transformation and the pastorally oriented pedagogy that the Bible utilises to advance moral development and prevent hermeneutic bias. Lastly, the article considers how the narrative, Law, prophets and wisdom texts in the Hebrew Bible train in social critique. This article helps Christians to develop a biblically based hermeneutic of the Hebrew Scripture’s social transformation for application today.
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Pedagogy of social transformation in the Hebrew Bible: Allowing Scripture to inform our interpretive strategy for contemporary application
Its pedagogy of social transformation instructs contemporary Christians how to interpret and apply lessons from Scripture in a manner that is consistent with the orientation, priorities and methods inherent in the text
This article demonstrates that relationship and identity are the necessary precursors to biblical education. It considers the educational perspective for social transformation within the Hebrew Bible
Summary
Pedagogy of social transformation in the Hebrew Bible: Allowing Scripture to inform our interpretive strategy for contemporary application. How to cite this article: Moloney, K., 2016, ‘Pedagogy of social transformation in the Hebrew Bible: Allowing Scripture to inform our interpretive strategy for contemporary application’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 72(3), a3148. Its pedagogy of social transformation instructs contemporary Christians how to interpret and apply lessons from Scripture in a manner that is consistent with the orientation, priorities and methods inherent in the text. This article demonstrates that relationship and identity are the necessary precursors to biblical education It considers the educational perspective for social transformation within the Hebrew Bible. For the Hebrew Bible to aptly inform social transformation in a contemporary setting, it is necessary to develop a comprehensive, rigorous and practicable interpretive strategy. An appreciation of its pedagogy assists contemporary Christians to ask the ‘right’ questions and thereby reach beyond a shallow or selective hermeneutic that merely confirms preconceptions and priorities whilst omitting the weightier matters that the Hebrew Bible teaches
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