How to Read and Interpret Scripture Across Cultures How can believers across cultures faithfully read and apply Scripture in a way that honors both the biblical text and their unique cultural contexts? In The Bible in Culture, Larry Caldwell introduces ethnohermeneutics--a revolutionary yet biblical approach to reading Scripture with, rather than for, the world. Drawing from decades of experience living overseas, Caldwell demonstrates that every culture has its own tools for understanding meaning and shows how God uses these to communicate the truth of his word. This approach is rooted in observing how Jesus, Paul, and others in the early church interpreted Scripture and in following their examples. Through real-life illustrations, interactive activities, and case studies, readers will discover how they can also read and interpret God's word in their own cultures. This book will challenge your assumptions about the interpretive task, encouraging and equipping you to rethink how the Bible can be understood across every people group in various cross-cultural, multiculturual, and multigenerational contexts. Caldwell is the undisputed father of ethnohermeneutics. He believes, and I do too, that biblical interpretation does not have to be left in the hands of historical-critical method practitioners alone. Larry, in this book, contributes insights that strongly affirm the realities he has seriously considered for a greater part of his academic life and career-interpreting the Bible while being faithful to both Scripture and the cultural realities that peoples face around the world. This book will convince readers of the importance of considering other readings of the Bible in different contexts for the whole communication of Christ Jesus to his church. I recommend it! - Kofi Amoateng, PhD , Founder and Director, Africa Gateway Missions, Author, The Creedal Symbols of My Great Grandparents This book fills a significant gap in missiology. It provides historical and contemporary evidence of the diverse ways in which different cultures read, approach, and interpret the Bible. Larry Caldwell's wealth of knowledge and experience has challenged and shaped how I relate to and teach my students as a Canadian-born seminary professor in southern Brazil. Beyond being an important resource for how ethnohermeneutics has evolved and should be applied, The Bible in Culture will expand your appreciation and insight into how the global church can and should faithfully contribute to a fuller understanding of God and his word. - Lyndell Campbell-Réquia , Professor, Seminário Teológico Batista do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Larry Caldwell's The Bible in Culture is a compelling and much-needed contribution to the global conversation on biblical interpretation. With theological clarity and missiological insight, Caldwell reminds us that every culture possesses the God-given capacity to hear, understand, and interpret the Scriptures meaningfully within its cognitive environment. He skillfully holds the tension between the historical-grammatical method and the contextual realities of diverse interpretive communities, offering a hermeneutic that is both faithful and globally resonant. This book will challenge and inspire Bible students, missionaries, and theologians to practice "hermeneutical hospitality" when engaging different peoples and to read the Bible with-not just to-the world. The Bible in Culture is essential reading for anyone serious about making disciples among the nations. - Michael T. Cooper, PhD , Author, Ephesiology: A Study of the Ephesian Movement Larry W. Caldwell is Chief Academic Officer and Dean, and Professor of Intercultural Studies and Bible Interpretation, at Kairos University (formerly Sioux Falls Seminary) located in Sioux Falls, SD. In addition, he is Senior Missiologist for Converge Worldwide. Prior to this he and his wife Mary were missionaries with Converge for twenty-one years in Manila, Philippines, where he was Academic Dean and Professor of Missions and Bible Interpretation at Asian Theological Seminary, as well as Director of the Doctor of Missiology program of the Asia Graduate School of Theology--Philippines. Larry teaches regularly on contextualization and Bible interpretation at seminaries and missionary training institutions throughout the world. He has authored dozens of books and academic articles, including Missions and You! and Doing Bible Interpretation!, both of which have been translated into several different languages. He and Mary have four adult children and four grandchildren.