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Think God's Thoughts After Him, Jeremy M. Kimble

Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Publications

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The Scribe Who Has Become A Disciple: Identifying And Becoming The Ideal Reader Of The Biblical Canon, Ched E. Spellman

Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Publications

The literary notion of “implied reader” invokes a series of hermeneutically significant questions: What is it? Who produces it? and How can it be identified? These questions naturally lead to a further query: What is the relationship between this implied reader of a text and an actual reader of a text? This type of study is often associated primarily with reader-response theory and purely literary approaches. However, the concept can help uncover an often-neglected aspect of biblical interpretation, namely, the role of the reader. If biblical authors envision certain types of readers, then identifying the nature of this “implied audience” …

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