Canon and Exegesis

Previous attempts to critique the canonical approach of Brevard Childs have remained largely theoretical in nature. One of the weakness of canonical criticism, then, is its failure to have generated new readings of extended biblical passages. Reviewing the hermeneutics and the praxis of Childs'' approach, Lyons then turns to the Sodom narrative (Gen 18-19) as a test of a practical exegesis accordi...