includes index and biblioraphy

From Speech Acts to Scriipture Acts: The Coveant of Discourse and the Discourse of Covenant Ricceur, Speech-Act Theory, and the Gospels as History Promise of Speech-Act Theory for Biblical Interpretation How to Be a Postmodernist and Remain a Christian: A Responce to Nicholas Wolterstorff Behind and Infront of the Text: Language, Reference and Indeterminacy Polite Respnse to Anthony Thiselton Before Babel and After Pentecost: Language Literature and Biblical Interpretation Languge at the Froniers of Language Starting a Rockslide- Deconstructing Hisory and Language Via Christological Detonators Words of Power: Biblical Language and Literary Criticism With Reference to Stehen Prickett`s Words and the Word and Mark 1:21-28 Reviving the Power of Biblical Language: The Bible, Literature and Literature and Language Naming the Father; the Teaching Authority of Jesus and Contemporary Debate Back to Babel- That Confounded Language Again: A Response to David l Jeffrey On Bible Translation and Hermeneutics Illocutionary Stance in Hans Frei`s the Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: An Exercise in Conceptul Redescription and Normative Analysis Metaphor, Sympol and the Interpretation of Deauteronomy Words on Inevitable? Reflections on the Interpretation of Prophetic Oracles of Judgement Metaphor and Exegesis