I am in possession of AKMA‘s new book, Faithful Interpretation: Reading the Bible in a Postmodern World. I am a big fan of his What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism?, one of the best introductions to Postmodernism I’ve read. I’m also a big fan of AKMA in general. So I couldn’t keep from opening the new one even though I’m not supposed to be doing anything other than revising my book.

I intended to read just the opening paragraph or two but got sucked all the way through the introduction. AKMA plunges straight into the question of whether intention is in the text. AKMA, as you know, respects his readers both by thinking hard and by writing clearly. In fact, he writes brilliantly.

I’m looking forward to having my mind banged upside the brain by AKMA’s latest… [Tags: akma bible hermeneutics postmodernism pomo]

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