Scripture & Theology

According to the SAHS website, “the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar was set up in 1998 to see what could be done to renew interpretation of the Bible as Scripture in the Academy. The Partners in the Scripture and Hermeneutics Project are Bible Society, the University of Gloucestershire (UK), Baylor University (USA), and Redeemer University College (Canada). The Seminar gathers leading Christian scholars from around the world each year at a consultation. They have come from many disciplines, including biblical, theological, philosophical, literary and historical.”

Out of these meetings the seminar has produced a series of volumes, the Scripture & Hermeneutics Series, of which the eighth and final installment has just appeared. In recognition of this achievement we are running a running an eight-part review of SHS 1–8 by Mark Elliott.

Dr Elliott is Lecturer in Church History at St Mary’s College, St Andrews, he has been an organizer and regular contributor to the Scripture & Theology seminar from which this site takes its name, and he has just concluded a season as editor of the European Journal of Theology (EJT), in which his reviews of SHS first appeared.

The reviews will re-appear fortnightly on S&T, on alternating Fridays. Listed by volume title, they are:

• SHS 1: Renewing Biblical Interpretation (December 2000 in North America and the UK)
• SHS 2: After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation (December 2001 in North America and the UK)
• SHS 3: A Royal Priesthood?: The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically (November 2002 in North America and the UK)
• SHS 4: Behind the Text: History and Biblical Interpretation (December 2003 in North America and the UK)
• SHS 5: Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (December 2004 in North America and the UK)
• SHS 6: Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation(December 2005 in North America and January 2006 in the UK)
• SHS 7: Canon and Biblical Interpretation (December 2006 in North America and January 2007 in the UK)
• SHS 8: The Bible and the University (November 2007 in North America and January 2008 in the UK)

Special thanks are in order to Dr Elliott and to Paternoster’s EJT for permission to represent the reviews here (of vols. 1–3 in 2003, and of vols. 4–8 in 2008). We are grateful for the international and inter-confessional work they do.