General Editors Preface - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF INTERPRETATION - The Autonomous Text, the Hermeneutical Self, and Divine Rhetoric; D.Klemm - Interpretation and the Bible. The Dialectic of Concept and Content in Interpretative Practice; B.Polka - Revelation and Understanding: A Defense of Tradition; R.Forsman - PART 2: THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE WORK OF AUSTIN FARRER - The Stuff of Revelation. Austin Farrer's Doctrine of Inspired Images; I.Dalferth - Making it Plain. Austin Farrer and the Inspiration of Scripture; G.Loughlin - The Sin of Reading: Austin Farrer, Helen Gardner and Frank Kermode on the Poetry of St Mark; H.Hauge - PART 3: INTERPRETATIVE PRACTICE: BIBLICAL TESTS AND THEMES - Wrestling with the Angel. A Study in Historical and Literary Interpretation; J.Rogerson - The Dialogic Discourse of Psalms; H.Levine - God's Presence and the Paradox of Freedom; B.Zelechow - Retracing a Writerly Text: In the Footsteps of a Midrashic Sequence on the Creation of the Male and the Female; R.Salmon & G.E.Alster - Index