TY - BOOK AU - Briggs,Richard TI - The Virtuous Reader: Old Testament Narrative and Interpretive Virtue T2 - Studies in theological interpretation SN - 9780801038433 (pbk.) AV - BS476 .B617 2010 U1 - 221.601 PY - 2010/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - Baker Academic KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Hermeneutics KW - Old Testament - Narratives KW - Virtues KW - Hermeneutics - Interpretation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; In pursuit of the virtues of the implied reader of the Old Testament -- Neither meek nor modest : the puzzling hermeneutics of humility -- Wisdom to discern the living interpretation from the dead -- Like a hermeneutic in a cage : the eclipse of biblical trust -- Love in the time of monotheism : the blessing of interpretive charity -- Summoned : the virtue of receptivity -- The virtuous reader of Old Testament narrative : from the implied reader to the real reader ER -