Ep 258: How to Read and Interpret the New Testament with Max Botner

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In this episode, Alex Bernardo interviews Dr. Max Botner about his book on interpreting the New Testament.

In this episode I talk with Dr. Max Botner about his brand-new book How Then Shall We Read? A Students Guide to Interpreting the New Testament, out now on Eerdmans. In this book Botner introduces readers to the fundamentals of New Testament interpretation, discussing the pitfalls of biblicism and fundamentalist, non-contextualized readings of the Bible and showing how we need interpretive methods and hermeneutics. He explains that we need to let the Bible be the Bible, how theology and Biblic...

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Host: Alex Bernardo

Guest: Max Botner

Topics covered

• New Testament interpretation
• biblicism
• hermeneutics
• theology
• fundamentalism

Keywords

• New Testament
• interpretation
• biblicism
• hermeneutics
• theology
• fundamentalism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Eerdmans

Books & works: How Then Shall We Read? A Students Guide to Interpreting the New Testament

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