The Return of Oral Hermeneutics

Tom Steffen is professor emeritus of intercultural studies at the Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University. He specializes in church multiplication, orality, honor and shame, and business as mission. Some of his books include Passing the Baton, Reconnecting God's Story to Ministry, Great Commission Companies (with Steve Rundle), Encountering Missionary Life and Work (with Lois McKinney Douglas), and The Facilitative Era. Bill Bjoraker, PhD Fuller Theological Seminary, served in pastoral and teaching roles in Israel for eight years in the 1980s. He is ordained with the Assemblies of God and is on faculty at William Carey International University. He is a specialist in Jewish studies and has employed oral strategies and storytelling in teaching the Bible in academia and in Jewish ministry since 2008.