From essays that focus on the horizon of the text through to essays that consider the horizon of the twenty-first century church, this collection invites reflection on the illumination that hermeneutical awareness brings to biblical interpretation. This Festschrift in honor of Anthony C. Thiselton aims to consider, exemplify, and build upon his insights in philosophical hermeneutics and biblical studies, particularly in relation to Paul and his writings.

An assessment of the development and achievements of the field of Psychological Hermeneutics.

Hexaemeron / Kathleen E. McVey -- The exegesis of history in John Chrysostom's Homilies on Acts / Amanda Berry Wylie -- Vile bodies : Paul and Augustine on the resurrection of the flesh / Paula Fredriksen -- The rhetoric of God in the figurative exegesis of Augustine / Robert W. Bernard -- The myth of the Augustinian synthesis / David W. Johnson -- Meister Eckhart and a millennium with Mary and Martha / Blake R. Heffner -- The fusion of papal ideology and biblical exegesis in the fourteenth century / Christopher Ocker -- Jean Gerson on the "traditional sense" of Scripture as an argument for an ecclesial hermeneutic / Mark S. Burrows -- Christopher Columbus as a scriptural exegete / John V. Fleming -- Luther's humor as a tool for interpreting Scripture / Eric W. Grit.

No issue now occupies contemporary evangelicals more than the role of culture in biblical interpretation. In Culture and Biblical Hermeneutics the author not only analyzes the current debate but also makes a significant contribution to it. This volume grapples with what the author calls "the challenge that historical and cultural relativism poses to the hermeneutical process when applied to the authoritative Scripture." He accomplishes his goal admirably by exploring both the origin and the current state of biblical hermeneutics and by developing a biblical theology of hermeneutics and culture.

Inspired by the work of prolific biblical scholar Stephen D. Moore, the contributors in this book argue for the necessity and benefits of using queer theory, literary criticism, cultural theory, postmodernism and the like to critique biblical texts.