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Author : David R. Law
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567400123
An introduction to one of the core methods of approaching biblical texts.
Author : John Barton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521485932
This guide to the state of biblical studies features 20 chapters written by scholars from North America and Britain, and represents both traditional and contemporary points of view.
Author : Stephen B. Chapman,Marvin A. Sweeney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521883207
This volume features an impressive array of leading biblical scholars and presents an illuminating and lively cross-section of this traditional field of study. Treating core topics and changing methodologies within twenty-three comprehensive chapters, this Companion provides an outstanding introduction to the historical origins and literary character of the canonical literature.
Author : Eta Linnemann,Robert W. Yarbrough
Publisher : Kregel Academic & Professional
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082543095X
A former liberal scholar and student of Rudolph Bultmann and Ernst Fuchs tells how modern biblical scholarship has drifted far from the truth, and why its assumptions are nonetheless so influential and thereby dangerous.
Author : Fitzmyer, Joseph A., SJ
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781616436353
This book seeks to establish the properly oriented use of the historical-critical method as the mode of ascertaining the sense of the written Word of God.
Author : Jon Douglas Levenson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664254071
Writing from a Jewish perspective, Jon Levenson reviews many often neglected theoretical questions. He focuses on the relationship between two interpretive communities--the community of scholars who are committed to the historical-critical method of biblical interpretation and the community responsible for the canonization and preservation of the Bible.
Author : Christopher M. Hays,Christopher B. Ansberry
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441245755
Many introductions to biblical studies describe critical approaches, but they do not discuss the theological implications. This timely resource discusses the relationship between historical criticism and Christian theology to encourage evangelical engagement with historical-critical scholarship. Charting a middle course between wholesale rejection and unreflective embrace, the book introduces evangelicals to a way of understanding and using historical-critical scholarship that doesn't compromise Christian orthodoxy. The book covers eight of the most hotly contested areas of debate in biblical studies, helping readers work out how to square historical criticism with their beliefs.
Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310860945
Christianity believes in a God who acts in history. The Bible tells us the story of God’s actions in Israel, culminating in the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth and the spreading of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome. The issue of history is thus unavoidable when it comes to reading the Bible. Volume 4 of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Series looks at how history has dominated biblical studies under the guise of historical criticism. This book explores ways in which different views of history influence interpretation. It considers the implications of a theology of history for biblical exegesis, and in several case studies it relates these insights to particular texts. “Few topics are more central to the task of biblical interpretation than history, and few books open up the subject in so illuminating and thought-provoking a manner as this splendid collection of essays and responses.” Hugh Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford, England “. . . breaks new ground in its interdisciplinary examination of the methodology, presuppositions, practices and purposes of biblical hermeneutics, with a special emphasis on the relation of faith and history.” Eleonore Stump, Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, United States “This volume holds great promise for the full-fledged academic recovery of the Bible as Scripture. It embodies an unusual combination of world-class scholarship, historic Christian orthodoxy, bold challenges to conventional wisdom, and the launching of fresh new ideas.” Al Wolters, Professor of Religion and Theology, Redeemer University College, Ontario, Canada “The essays presented here respect the need and fruitfulness of a critical historiography while beginning the much-needed process of correcting the philosophical tenets underlying much modern and postmodern biblical research. The result is a book that mediates a faith understanding, both theoretical and practical, of how to read the Bible authentically as a Christian today.” Francis Martin, Chair, Catholic-Jewish Theological Studies, John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, D.C. Not only is history central to the biblical story, but from a Christian perspective history revolves around Jesus Christ. All roads of human activity before Christ lead up to him, and all roads after Christ connect with him. A concern with history and God’s action in it is a central characteristic of the Bible. The Bible furnishes us with an account of God's interactions with people and with the nation of Israel that stretches down the timeline from creation to the early church. It tells us of real men, women, and children, real circumstances and events, real cultures, places, languages, and worldviews. And it shows us God at work in human affairs, revealing his character and heart through his activities. “Behind” the Text examines the correlation between history and the Bible. For the scholar, student, and informed reader of the Bible, this volume highlights the importance of history for biblical interpretation, and looks at how history has and should influence interpretation.
Author : Gerhard Maier
Publisher : St. Louis : Concordia Publishing House
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0570037522
"Gerhard Maier is a German theologian who created a bit of a 'stir' when this book was published in Germany in 1974. Essentially, he argues for abandoning the 'critical' approach to biblical studies, and a return to treating it as 'revelatory.' Here are some quotations from the book: 'The Bible itself gives no key with which to distinguish between the Word of God and Scripture, and along with that, between Christ and Scripture (Pg. 16).' 'Accordingly, the historical-critical method is of necessity concerned with differences of content and judgments about facts, whereas the Bible wants to be a witness of personal encounter and the declaration of the divine will. A suitability of method to subject matter is again diminished or destroyed (Pg. 19).' 'This method would take human reason out of the fall into sin and use it critically, i.e., to discriminate and make judgments in matters of revelation. In actual fact this method has thereby already withdrawn reason from claims to revelation. What blindness! (Pg. 23)' 'The assumptions of the historical-critical method--founded on human arbitrariness--logically lead to this, that man himself appears as the norm in the real canon. Man, who began critically to analyze revelation and to discover for himself what is normative, found at the end of the road: himself (Pg. 35).' 'The theologian is different. He must methodologically begin with the assumption that a given event here is possible, and therefore he must ensure an openness to the methodological principle which will not hastily and insolently curtail divine revelation at any place ... Therefore the historical-critical method is to be replaced by a historical-Biblical one (Pg. 52).' 'Our starting point was the methodological insight that, at least initially, we must let revelation determine its own limits. Consequently revelation defines itself (Pg. 63).' "The often sadistic desire to elaborate on contradictions has no support in the Biblical method (Pg. 71)'"--Amazon.com.
Author : Edgar Krentz
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015004680057
Author : Douglas Mangum,Amy Balogh
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781577997061
The Bible was not written and received in a historical vacuum—in fact, the social and historical context of the Bible illuminates key understandings that may have been otherwise missed. Biblical scholars use many different approaches to uncover this context, each engaging various aspects of the social and historical world of the Bible—from religious ritual to scribal practice to historical event. In Social & Historical Approaches to the Bible, you will learn how these methods developed and see how they have been used. You will be introduced to the strengths and weaknesses of each method, so you may understand its benefits as well as see its limitations. Many of these approaches are still in use by biblical scholars today, though often much changed from their earliest form as ideas were revised in light of the challenges and questions posed by further research.
Author : Stanley E. Porter,Beth M. Stovell
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830869992
In this Spectrum Multiview volume five experts in biblical hermeneutics gather to state and defend their approach to the discipline. Contributors include: Craig Blomberg with the historical-critical/grammatical approach Richard Gaffin with the redemptive-historical approach Scott Spencer with the literary/postmodern approach Robert Wall with the canonical approach Merold Westphal with the philosophical/theological approach Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.
Author : David L. Petersen,Joel M. LeMon,Kent Harold Richards
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589834446
As the field of biblical studies expands to accommodate new modes of inquiry, scholars are increasingly aware of the need for methodological clarity. David L. Petersens teaching, research, and service to the guild are marked by a commitment to such clarity. Thus, in honor of Petersens work, a cohort of distinguished colleagues presents this volume as an authoritative and up-to-date handbook of methods in Hebrew Bible scholarship. Readers will find focused discussions of traditional and newly emerging methods, including historical criticism, ideological criticism, and literary criticism, as well as numerous case studies that indicate how these approaches work and what insights they yield. Additionally, several essays provide a broad overview of the field by reflecting on the larger intellectual currents that have generated and guided contemporary biblical scholarship.The contributors are Yairah Amit, Pablo R. Andiach, Alan J. Avery-Peck, John Barton, Bruce C. Birch, Susan Brayford, William P. Brown, Walter Brueggemann, Mark K. George, William K. Gilders, John H. Hayes, Christopher B. Hays, Ralph W. Klein, Douglas A. Knight, Beatrice Lawrence, Joel M. LeMon, Christoph Levin, James Luther Mays, Dean McBride, Carol A. Newsom, Kirsten Nielsen, Martti Nissinen, Gail R. ODay, Thomas Rmer, C. L. Seow, Naomi Steinberg, Brent A. Strawn, Marvin A. Sweeney, Gene M. Tucker, and Robert R. Wilson.
Author : Scott Hahn,Benjamin Wiker
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824599039
Resisting the typical, dry methods of contemporary scholarship, this powerful examination revisits the biblical days of life-and-death conflict, struggles for power between popes and kings, and secret alliances of intellectuals united by a desire to pit worldly goals against the spiritual priorities of the church. This account looks beyond the pretense of neutrality and objectivity often found in secular study, and brings to light the appropriation of scripture by politically motivated interpreters. Questioning the techniques taken for granted at divinity schools worldwide, their origins are traced to the writings of Machiavelli and Marsilio of Padua, the political projects of Henry VIII, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, and the quest for an empire of science on the part of Descartes and Spinoza. Intellectual and inspiring, an argument is made for bringing Christianity back to biblical literacy.
Author : Peter Stuhlmacher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592444137
In this essay Peter Stuhlmacher immerses himself and the reader in the crucial issue of the relation between theological understanding and the historical investigation of the Scriptures. What are the limits of the historical-critical method as it has developed? The author's position--presented for the first time in English--allows the claims of the texts to be heard even as critical evaluation continues. This statement takes on extreme importance at a time when so many biblical students and scholars are attempting to discern the future of critical scholarship.