The Nature Of Biblical Criticism

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664225872

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The Nature of Biblical Criticism by John Barton Pdf

Biblical criticism faces increasing hostility on two fronts: from biblical conservatives, who claim it is inherently positivistic and religiously skeptical, and from postmodernists, who see it as driven by the falsities of objectivity and neutrality. In this magisterial overview of the key factors and developments in biblical studies, John Barton demonstrates that these evaluations of biblical criticism fail to do justice to the work that has been done by critical scholars over many generations. Traditional biblical criticism has had as its central concern a semantic interest: a desire to establish the "plain sense" of the biblical text, which in itself requires sensitivity to many literary aspects of texts. Therefore, he argues, biblical criticism already includes many of the methodological approaches now being recommended as alternatives to it and, further, the agenda of biblical studies is far less fragmented than often thought.

Author : J.E. Force,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401732499

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The Books of Nature and Scripture by J.E. Force,R.H. Popkin Pdf

Dick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and other aspects of their particular philosophies. This collection represents the best current research in this area. It stands alone as the only work to bring together the best current work on these topics. Its primary audience is specialised scholars of the thought of Newton and Spinoza as well as historians of the philosophical ideas of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Author : Edward D. Andrews,F. David Farnell,Thomas Howe,Thomas Marshall,Dianna Nedwman
Publisher : Christian Publishing House
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781945757716

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BIBLICAL CRITICISM by Edward D. Andrews,F. David Farnell,Thomas Howe,Thomas Marshall,Dianna Nedwman Pdf

Author : Richard N. Soulen,R. Kendall Soulen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611641561

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Handbook of Biblical Criticism, Fourth Edition by Richard N. Soulen,R. Kendall Soulen Pdf

The fourth edition of this best-selling textbook continues to be a valuable resource for the beginning student in the critical study of the Bible. Thoroughly revised to include the newest methods, recent discoveries, and developments in the field of biblical criticism over the past decade, the Handbook of Biblical Criticism is designed to be a starting point for understanding the vast array of methods, approaches and technical terms employed in this field. Updates in this edition also include an expanded dictionary of terms, phrases, names, and frequently used abbreviations, as well as a bibliography that includes the most up-to-date date publications. The Handbook of Biblical Criticism is a valuable introductory textbook and a reliable guide for pastors, laypersons, and scholars whose expertise lies in other fields.

Author : Henk Nellen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192529817

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Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age by Henk Nellen Pdf

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion under the influence of vehement debates on the sacrosanct status of the Bible. Until quite recently, this gradual but decisive shift has been attributed to the rise of the sciences, in particular astronomy and physics. This authoritative volume looks at biblical criticism as an innovative force and as the outcome of developments in philology that had started much earlier than scientific experimentalism or the New Philosophy. Scholars began to situate the Bible in its historical context. The contributors show that even in the hands of pious, orthodox scholars philological research not only failed to solve all the textual problems that had surfaced, but even brought to light countless new incongruities. This supplied those who sought to play down the authority of the Bible with ammunition. The conviction that God's Word had been preserved as a pure and sacred source gave way to an awareness of a complicated transmission in a plurality of divergent, ambiguous, historically determined, and heavily corrupted texts. This shift took place primarily in the Dutch Protestant world of the seventeenth century.

Author : Aliou Cissé Niang
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498241922

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A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism by Aliou Cissé Niang Pdf

Telling in current biblical postcolonial discourse that draws insights from the works of Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and postcolonial theorists is the missing contribution of Leopold Sedar Senghor, the architect of Negritude. If mentioned at all, Senghor is often read through conclusions drawn by his critics or dismissed altogether as irrelevant to postcolonialism. Restored to its rightful place, Senghorian Negritude is a postcolonial lens for reading Scripture and other faith traditions with a view to reposition, conscientize, liberate, and rehabilitate the conquered, and enable them to reclaim their faith traditions and practices that once directed a mutual relationship between God, human, and nature--a delicate symbiosis before the French colonial advent in West Africa. A keen eye for cross-cultural analysis and contextualization enriched this volume with an intriguing reading of scripture, Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman texts in conversation with other faith traditions, particularly Senegalese Diola Religion. As a Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism, Negritude is an optic through which people of faith may look around themselves, critically reread their sacred texts, reassess their vocation, and practice mutuality with God and nature on the heels of chilling climate change. Enshrined in this innovative argument is a call for introspection and challenge for people of faith to assume their vocation--human participatory agency.

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664245552

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Reading the Old Testament by John Barton Pdf

John Barton's revised classic text is intended for students who have already learned some of the techniques of biblical study and who wish to explore the implications and aims of the various critical methods currently in use. Chapters include: form criticism, redaction criticism, canonical criticism, structuralism, reader-response criticism, and postmodern approaches. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : David L. Petersen,Joel M. LeMon,Kent Harold Richards
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589834446

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Method Matters by David L. Petersen,Joel M. LeMon,Kent Harold Richards Pdf

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 : Jeffrey H. Tigay
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597524377

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Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism by Jeffrey H. Tigay Pdf

Modern critical scholarship has concluded that the books of the Hebrew Bible have not reached us in their original form but are the products of lengthy evolution. Many of these books are thought to combine the works of more than one author or age and to have undergone considerable revision. Tigay and the other contributors use comparisons of various texts from ancient Mesopotamia and post-exilic Israel. Such comparisons show that the sort of development of biblical literature that nineteenth-century critics were led to postulate from close study of the texts alone is characteristic of many ancient Near Eastern texts. 'Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism' is of value to scholars interested in the Old Testament, as well as religion, theology, Jewish studies, Near Eastern studies, and comparative literature.

Author : Samuel Tongue
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004271159

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Between Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting by Samuel Tongue Pdf

In Between Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting, Samuel Tongue offers an account of the aesthetic and critical tensions inherent in the development of the Higher Criticism of the Bible. Different ‘types’ of Bible are created through the intellectual and literary pressures of Enlightenment and Romanticism and, as Tongue suggests, it is this legacy that continues to orientate the approaches deemed legitimate in biblical scholarship. Using a number of ancient and contemporary critical and poetic rewritings of Jacob’s struggle with the ‘angel’ (Gen 32:22-32), Tongue makes use of postmodern theories of textual production to argue that it is the ‘paragesis’, a parasitical form of writing between disciplines, that best foregrounds the complex performativity of biblical interpretation.

Author : Joshua Berman
Publisher : Maggid
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1592645380

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Ani Maamin by Joshua Berman Pdf

Author : Radner
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780802872203

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Time and the Word by Radner Pdf

The history and theology of figural reading -- Figural history as a question -- The fate of figural reading -- Imagining figural time -- Creative omnipotence and the figures of scripture -- Figural speech and the incarnational synecdoche -- Figural reading in practice -- Juxtapositional reading and the force of the lectionary -- Trinitarian love means two testaments -- The Word's work: figural preaching and scriptural conformance -- Four figural sermons.

Author : Randall C. Bailey,Tat-siong Benny Liew,Fernando F. Segovia
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589832459

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They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism by Randall C. Bailey,Tat-siong Benny Liew,Fernando F. Segovia Pdf

Critics from three major racial/ethnic minority communities in the United States—African American, Asian American, and Latino/a American—focus on the problematic of race and ethnicity in the Bible and in contemporary biblical interpretation. With keen eyes on both ancient text and contemporary context, contributors pay close attention to how racial/ethnic dynamics intersect with other differential relations of power such as gender, class, sexuality, and colonialism. In groundbreaking interaction, they also consider their readings alongside those of other racial/ethnic minority communities. The volume includes an introduction pointing out the crucial role of this work within minority criticism by looking at its historical trajectory, critical findings, and future directions. The contributors are Cheryl B. Anderson, Francisco O. García-Treto, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Frank M. Yamada, Gale A. Yee, Jae-Won Lee, Gay L. Byron, Fernando F. Segovia, Randall C. Bailey, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Demetrius K. Williams, Mayra Rivera Rivera, Evelyn L. Parker, and James Kyung-Jin Lee.

Author : Kenton L. Sparks
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801027017

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God's Word in Human Words by Kenton L. Sparks Pdf

A highly regarded Old Testament scholar argues that evangelicals can embrace biblical criticism without losing their faith.

Author : Scott Hahn,Benjamin Wiker
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824599039

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Politicizing the Bible by Scott Hahn,Benjamin Wiker Pdf

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.