Lectio Sacra

Series Description:

The Lectio Sacra series engages the sacred reading of historical biblical texts in a scholarly manner that remains accessible to general readers. The Lectio Sacra series proposes an integrated vision of biblical interpretation. Biblical commentary is only the cottage industry that it is because of the interests of over two billion living people for whom the Hebrew Bible and New Testament are received and read as holy books. Reading such texts as sacred—lectio sacra—is, broadly speaking, to offer close historical readings for the sake of the text’s reception in religious tradition. Such reading is likewise interested in influential (or significant but neglected) interpretations for the way in which they illumine those texts and speak to the ongoing life of those who live and believe by them. Indeed, in the eyes of many modern and most ancient readers, reading the sacred page for all its worth calls for explicit attention both to the words on the page and to its reception and instructive value among those who hold it sacred.

Different readers and interpretive traditions will, of course, have different visions of how Scripture and theology fit together. Combined with the array of potential texts, receivers, and theological issues—ancient and contemporary—that can be treated, this makes sacred reading naturally a forum in which diverse interests should have a voice. Accordingly, this series will not impose confessional nor methodological straightjackets on its authors but welcomes diverse perspectives. By engaging relevant questions through biblical texts and their reception, this series will provide a home for a wide range of studies that integrate exegesis and the theological task and so contribute to the world of contemporary biblical and theological scholarship.

Series Editors:

Ben C. Blackwell, WTC Theology

John A. Kinkaid, University of Mary

James B. Prothro, Augustine Institute

Editorial Board:

Jason Byassee, Timothy Eaton Memorial Church

Michael Gorman, St. Mary’s Seminary and University

Jennie Grillo, University of Notre Dame

Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary

Isaac Augustine Morales, OP, Providence College

Lucy Peppiatt, WTC Theology