Ep. 430 Jennifer Garcia Bashaw & Aaron Higashi - Interpreting the Bible in a World Fighting Over What It Means
About this episode
The episode discusses the complexities of interpreting the Bible and the implications of different interpretations.
What are you actually doing when you read the Bible? Interpretation. Every time we open the text, we're already choosing which questions to ask, which lenses to bring, and whose interests get served by the answers we land on. In this episode, I sit down with Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi, authors of Serving Up Scripture, to talk about what responsible interpretation looks like, why certainty works against it, and how the same passages have been used both to enslave and to liberate....
People in this episode
Host: Joshua Johnson
Guests: Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, Aaron Higashi
Topics covered
- Bible interpretation
- responsible interpretation
- certainty
- enslavement
- liberation
Keywords
- Bible
- interpretation
- certainty
- enslavement
- liberation
- questions
- lenses
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Serving Up Scripture
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