The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture, Second Edition

Dr. Sandra M. Schneiders has created an integral hermeneutical theory grounded in a transformational hermeneutical practice that explains and illuminates our Bible text as a faith based resource to the oppressed and marginalized, as well to those who are much more fortunate.Dr. Schneiders theory rises to a level that I think is "pure genius", and is a representative model for understanding the real truth that is manifested in Jesus Christ. Jesus' command to "learn of me" (Matthew 11:29) is what I think her occupation and amazing material is all about. It is the most inspiring work I have ever encountered!Mark A. Smith, M.S.M., author of "God of our flat Earth"

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In some ways, this is a difficult book to review adequately in a concise way. It is dense, scholarly, sometimes difficult to read, and absolutely brilliant. It’s decidely not for readers without significant background in the study of the Scriptures. Those without college-level preparation in theology and the philosophy of religion would find it difficult going. Even with such background, it’s a challenging read. Dr Schneiders’ work reflects an amazing mastery of English and her sentences are frequently long and complex; I often found myself re-reading paragraphs to clarify her meaning. Having said all this, it’s a brilliant, insightful and mind- stretching read. I highlighted more than a hundred passages and will undoubtedly go back to re-read specific chapters again and again. I have been a serious student of the Bible all of my adult life and came away from THE REVALATORY TEXT with more insight into how to understand and interpret the Scriptures than I previously acquired in thirty-plus years. If you’re up for a challenging read and having your horizons stretched, this is a book for you.

Sandra Schneiders has in this work provided students and theologians alike with an invaluable resource on hermeneutical study, and post-modern Biblical scholarship. Her attempt to work with the text from an existentialist experience is refreshing considering the complete secularisation of Scripture by other authors. However, when engaging her example hermeneutic of suspiscion, I asked myself, "Is this Christian existentialism or is it Feminist existentialism." Once again, infant Christianity appears as the butt of a scholastic enterprise that projects current ideology onto ancient text, and what makes this all the more difficult is that it involves at times imaginative reconstruction. Despite its reflection of popular white middle class ethic, this book is a handy resource, if only for its dealings with 'scientific methodology', and Schneiders' immense notions of spirituality refreshingly engage Sacred text, filling a vacuum in modern academic theology.

It is so good to see The Revelatory Text back in print! It is one of the most important primary reference tools for the study of scripture available. The writing style is rich in language and challenging in the application of exegetical principles. Schnieders also provides the standard by which most theology schools and seminaries structure their understanding of sacred scripture within a historical context. Her language has now become the common form of expression in theological conversations today. The only difference between this re-printed version of The Revelatory Text and Schnieders' first edition is the second preface. Since Schneiders wrote a classic the first time, she now only needs to comment briefly on it.

Valuable for providing an intelligent understanding of hermeneutics for people who want to combine critical exegesis with a sacred entrance into scripture, and the principles could be applied to any scripture for a person who enters into a relationship with their faith tradition through a scripture.For a non academic with a degree in theology this was hard work. It would have helped if there were examples of instantiation of the methods before the example of the Samaritan woman encounter narrative at the end. The little familiarity I had with the ideas of Ricoeur helped and I will read more before giving this book a necessary second reading.