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Index
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Introduction: Trajectories in Biblical Hermeneutics . . .
1. THE HISTORICAL-CRITICAL/GRAMMATICAL VIEW .
2. THE LITERARY/POSTMODERN VIEW . . . . . .
3. THE PHILOSOPHICAL/THEOLOGICAL VIEW . . . .
4. THE REDEMPTIVE-HISTORICAL VIEW . . . . .
5. THE CANONICAL VIEW . . . . . . . . . .
6. THE HISTORICAL-CRITICAL/GRAMMATICAL RESPONSE
7. THE LITERARY/POSTMODERN RESPONSE . . . .
8. THE PHILOSOPHICAL/THEOLOGICAL RESPONSE .. . . . 160
9. THE REDEMPTIVE-HISTORICAL RESPONSE . . . .
10. THE CANONICAL RESPONSE . . . . . . . .
Interpreting Together: Synthesizing Five Views of Biblical Hermeneutics . . . . . . . . . . .
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . .
Name and Subject Index . . . . . . . . . .
Scripture Index . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The issue of interpreting the Bible has a long history and vast complexity,'
even if the term hermeneutics, which is often used in conjunction with biblical interpretation, is
Students and scholars alike struggle to differentiate between the meaning of terms like biblical e
critically what exactly we are doing when we read, understand, or apply texts. Hermeneutics explores
This book thus focuses on the question of what hermeneutics is specifically as it applies to biblica
The first type of book presents students with step-bystep instructions on how one should interpret
in a historical fashion rather than directly engaging the debate.?
Both types of book tend to overlook the larger hermeneutical issues involved in biblical interpret
by including contributions from several of the major advocates of these diverse models.'
Each contributor provides a position essay describing the traits that characterize his perspective
By using this format, this book allows the reader to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each p
This is not the place to offer a full or complete history of biblical hermeneutics. Such histories a
Behind the text. In some ways, the history of biblical hermeneutics begins as early as the biblical
Some scholars trace the beginnings of historical exegesis to the historically based exegesis of th
The majority of scholars, however, point to the Enlightenment as a critical turning point in the f
Through the influences of Cartesian thought, Pyrrhonian skepticism and English deism, Enlightenmen
to search for the historical Jesus'17
to explore different types of texts and sources18
generally to ask the kinds of historical questions we see in contemporary Old and New Testament intr
Responding to this Enlightenment tradition, Friedrich Schleiermacher-often said to be the founder of
This form of hermeneutics focused on the mind of the author, along with the impact of his or her s
These various developments had a formative influence on the hermeneutical model that we will broadly
As Norman Petersen explains, "Essential to the historical-critical theory of biblical literature is
tracing how we gained our current text from that background.24
For example, form criticism-often a tool employed in traditional criticismuses the theories of the
This form-critical analysis is usually based on source-critical analysis; thus this evolutionary m
Often the goal of traditional criticism is to access the authenticity of the biblical texts or the s
The various levels of authenticity in form criticism serve a similar function. At times biblical s
looks at linguistic and philological questions but also locates the text within its context among ea
Modern scholars have recently joined traditional scholars in this quest. Modern practitioners of f
ton.30 Composition criticism, similar to redaction criticism, also follows traditional methods to
Within the text. In response to perceived weaknesses of the traditional approach, which looks behind
A form of phenomenological biblical literary interpretation emerged from several of these types of
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