Beschreibung
Pentecostal interpretation of biblical texts starts with the
reader experiencing the revelation of the Spirit in the
biblical narrative, and leading to the reader witnessing
about the spiritual experience in terms that remind of the
biblical narrative. Their experience is formed by the
expectation that what people in biblical times experienced
is to be repeated today. Pentecostals engage in narrative
theology based on and described in terms of the narrative
texts in the Bible. This book suggests that in their
exegetical labors, Pentecostals should consider utilizing
the results of a historical analysis combined with a
functional and semiotic analysis to interpret narrative
texts. The methods are described before it is demonstrated
at the hand of Daniel 1 and 2.
Marius Nel is a research professor in the
chair of Ecumenism: Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism at
North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
