Reading the Bible as Drama

Kevin Vanhoozer draws on 1 Corinthians 4 to argue powerfully for reading and teaching the Bible as drama. As Paul talks about his apostolic ministry, he says this:

“For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people” (1 Corinthians 4:9, emphasis mine). That word spectacle is translated from the Greek word theatron, which gives us the English word theater. It’s used in only two places in Scripture: here,…