RT Book
T1 How to determine the meaning of a sacred text: cases and methodologies
A1 Williams, Jay G. 1932-
LA English
PP Lewiston, NY u.a.
PB Mellen Press
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1612925707
AB Exegesis/Eisegesis : is there a difference? -- Aristotle's Inanna : a peripatetic view of myth -- Mythic transformation -- Scripture as Kung An -- Adam, enlightened or fallen? -- The wisdom of the serpent -- Symphony #1 : the genesis -- The structure of Judges 2:6-16:31 -- The Sheng Ren and the Navi -- Return to the roots : Platonic philosophy and the Yi Jing -- On reading a Confucian classic : the rhetoric of the Lun Yu -- Epimenides, self-referentiality and the Lotus Sutra -- The Vimalakirtinirdesasutra : the comedy of paradox -- Absolute skepticism : Lao Zi and Krishnamurti -- Jesus, the lord of Pisces : Hipparcus and the Gospels -- What is wrong with the church? -- Mark, the gospel of radical transformation -- The Gospel according to John (or is it Ch'an?) -- The spiritual in poetry -- Poems as interpretation -- Spiritual imagination
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL71
SN 9780773415683
SN 0773415688
K1 Sacred Books : History and criticism
K1 Hermeneutics