Reading the Bible in the Global Village: Helsinki

The world is increasingly assuming the characteristics of a "global village," as the development of transportation and information technologies makes travel and communications around the globe ever easier and quicker. The world of biblical scholarship has not been immune to such changes. Increasingly, biblical scholars everywhere are aware of the fact that they are "reading the Bible in the global village." The multiplication of scholarly methods and approaches to biblical criticism and interpretation presents new opportunities, but also raises new questions.