By Gerald Bray Apollos. 508 pages. £24.99
This book is likely to become something of a classic and required reading for all students of theology. I would have considered it pure gold as an undergraduate and even now have benefited greatly from reading it.
What Dr. Bray does is to present in an accessible form all the main approaches to biblical interpretation, from early Jewish exegesis to contemporary approaches in interpreting the Bible with a considered and insightful evaluation of each.
The format adopted to achieve this is masterly. Following a general chapter on the Bible, the concept of revelation and the Bible as revelation - concepts which remain true through all ages - Dr. Bray divides the rest of the book into three parts.
