Reading Scripture as the Church Donald Macleod Used by Bible students and

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Since the first interactions between Christians and Muslims

and is currently writing commentaries on Esther and Lamentations for the New International Commentary on the Old Testament

Reading Scripture as the Church Donald Macleod Used by Bible students andThe Bible is meant to be read in the church, by the church, as the church. Although the practice of reading Scripture has often become separated from its ecclesial context, theologian Derek Taylor argues that it rightly belongs to the disciplines of the community of faith. He finds a leading example of this approach in the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who regarded the reading of Scripture as an inherently communal exercise of discipleship. In