vol. 38, Issue #4

Online Journal Article: THE GLOBALIZATION OF HERMENEUTICS CRAIG L. BLOMBERG* JETS 38/4 (December 1995) 581–593

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THE GLOBALIZATION OF HERMENEUTICS
CRAIG L. BLOMBERG*
JETS 38/4 (December 1995) 581–593

Excerpt:
It was my first year of doctoral studies, and I found myself sharing a
small office with a Singaporean. Somehow we had gotten into a discussion
of cultural differences. He was describing the old Chinese tradition of
newlyweds living with in-laws. I remarked that it was hard for me to imagine
living that way. After all, didn’t the Bible teach that “a man shall leave his
father and mother”? Courteously but pointedly he reminded me that
extended families more often than not lived together in Biblical times, so
that his culture was closer to the Biblical practice in this respect than mine
was. I had not learned the term yet, but I had experienced a classic
example of a lesson in the “globalization” of Biblical hermeneutics.
--from the first page of the article