how do the biblical texts generate understanding and what is the nature of that understanding? Biblical scholarship is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the understanding that faith seeks. Yet there is something further to be done with the holy script after exegesis and analysis, not least because the holy script contains more than information. Indeed, the biblical discourse is part and parcel of the theodrama, for the Bible both recounts the action and is itself an element in the action. strictly speaking, however, we do not perform the discourse per se but the theodrama it
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