{"id":33100,"date":"2015-03-29T20:09:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T01:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=33100"},"modified":"2015-03-29T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T01:10:27","slug":"nt-wright-on-genre-and-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/nt-wright-on-genre-and-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"NT Wright on Genre and Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33103\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-who.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33103 \" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-who-300x228.png\" alt=\"dr who\" width=\"247\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-who-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-who.png 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Aooh, THAT is not historical narrative! Never fear, we&#8217;ll get you sorted. I&#8217;m The Doctor!&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the themes I&#8217;ve explored repeatedly in talking about Genesis and Bible interpretation in general is that of genre, and the necessity of recognizing the genre of the material we&#8217;re reading. Today I came across a easy-to-understand\u00a0analogy for this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I went to the cinema the other day with my two nephews and niece. It wasn\u2019t an ordinary cinema. It was a three-dimensional production. Instead of looking at an ordinary movie, it seemed as though everything was coming out of the screen straight at you. Everybody shrieked as balls were thrown, water splashed, cars rushed out of the screen straight towards us. Cinemas like that were popular in the early days of movies, and they seem to be making a come-back, at least as a novelty for children.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, for the three-dimensional trick to work you have to put on a special pair of spectacles, which the movie theatre supplies at the door. If you don\u2019t wear them, everything looks a bit blurred and you can\u2019t see the point. Once you\u2019re wearing them, you\u2019re part of the action and you can understand what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>When you read any great literature you need to know what sort of spectacles to put on. I\u2019m not talking about ordinary glass spectacles, the sort you may need to read with. I\u2019m talking about the lenses you need to have inside your head if you\u2019re going to become part of the action, if you\u2019re going to understand what the writer is talking about and what it all really meant. This is true whether we\u2019re reading the Bible or Shakespeare, Goethe or Chaucer, or the great writers of our own day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-NT Wright, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0664238262\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0664238262&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=benjthescri-20&amp;linkId=7BDOIE7D6TNJFWC6\">Matthew for Everybody<\/a> 1:202-3.<\/p>\n<p>I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of the themes I&#8217;ve explored repeatedly in talking about Genesis and Bible interpretation in general is that of genre, and the necessity of recognizing the genre of the material we&#8217;re reading. 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