Madinger, C., & Qalb, D. (Eds.). (2025). Connecting points: Bridging the orality gap to minds and (Vol. 1). OralityResources.International. ISBN 978 621 96888 3 3.

Ethnohermeneutics is a discipline born of necessity as Caldwell’s students in the Philippines struggled to grasp the Western grammatic-historical method of Bible interpretation. This book is the result of more than four decades of experience, including teaching hermeneutics and Caldwell’s research at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he earned his PhD in 1990. It addresses the challenge of interpreting the Bible while respecting the diverse cultures of the world and raises a critical question: Why can we no longer assume that our way is the best or only way?

Caldwell, L. (2025). The Bible in Culture: Reading the Bible With All the World Using Ethnohermeneutics. William Carey Publishing. ISBN 978 1 6450 8658 1.

Nick Acker, an OT scholar, explores new discoveries in oral traditions and identifies several commonly used rhetorical features, such as repetition of themes, catchwords, patterns, and activation. He then demonstrates the recognition of these features in a text to help in the interpretation of portions of Judges, Habbakuk, the synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John, and portions of Paul’s epistle to the Romans.

Acker, N. (2024). Exegeting orality: Interpreting the inspired words of scripture in light of their oral traditional origins. Wipf & Stock. ISBN 978 1 6203 2942 9.

Steffen, T. A., & Neu, R. (2024). Character theology: Engaging God through his cast of characters. Pickwick Publications. ISBN 978-1-6667-7857-1.

Thigpen, L. L. (2020). Connected learning: How adults with limited formal education learn (American Society of Missiology Monograph Book 44). Pickwick Publications. ISBN 978-1-53267-937-7.