Hermeneutics: An Introduction

Contents -- Preface -- I: The Aims and Scope of Hermeneutics -- 1. Toward a Definition of Hermeneutics -- 2. What Should We Hope to Gain from a Study of Hermeneutics? -- 3. Differences between "Philosophical Hermeneutics" and More Traditional Philosophical Thought, and Their Relation to Ex...

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Main Author: Thiselton, Anthony C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Grand Rapids Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co 2009
In:Year: 2009
Reviews:Hermeneutics: An Introduction. By Anthony C. Thiselton (2011) (Vincent, Alana)
Hermeneutics. An Introduction (2011) (Dalferth, Ingolf U., 1948 -)
[Rezension von: THISELTON, ANTHONY, Hermeneutics: An Introduction] (2011) (Lodge, John G.)
IxTheo Classification:HA Bible
Further subjects:B Bible Hermeneutics Bible
B Bible-Hermeneutics
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Print version: Thiselton, Anthony C: Hermeneutics : An Introduction. - Grand Rapids : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,c2009. - 9780802864109
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Summary:Contents -- Preface -- I: The Aims and Scope of Hermeneutics -- 1. Toward a Definition of Hermeneutics -- 2. What Should We Hope to Gain from a Study of Hermeneutics? -- 3. Differences between "Philosophical Hermeneutics" and More Traditional Philosophical Thought, and Their Relation to Explanation and Understanding -- 4. Preliminary and Provisional Understanding (Pre--understanding) and the Hermeneutical Circle -- 5. Recommended Initial Reading -- II: Hermeneutics in the Contexts of Philosophy, Biblical Studies, Literary Theory, and the Social Self -- 1. Further Differences from More Traditional Philosophical Thought: Community and Tradition -- Wisdom or Knowledge? -- 2. Approaches in Traditional Biblical Studies: The Rootedness of Texts Located in Time and Place -- 3. The Impact of Literary Theory on Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation: The New Criticism -- 4. The Impact of Literary Theory: Reader--Response Theories -- 5. Wider Dimensions of Hermeneutics: Interest, Social Sciences, Critical Theory, Historical Reason, and Theology -- 6. Recommended Initial Reading -- III: An Example of Hermeneutical Methods: The Parables of Jesus -- 1. The Definition of a Parable and Its Relation to Allegory -- 2. The Plots of Parables and Their Existential Interpretation -- 3. The Strictly Historical Approach: Jülicher, Dodd, and Jeremias -- 4. The Limits of the Historical Approach: A Retrospective View? -- 5. The Rhetorical Approach and Literary Criticism -- 6. Other Approaches: The New Hermeneutic, Narrative Worlds, Postmodernity, Reader Response, and Allegory -- 7. Recommended Initial Reading -- IV: A Legacy of Perennial Questions from the Ancient World: Judaism and the Ancient Greeks -- 1. The Christian Inheritance: The Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism -- 2. The Literature of Greek--Speaking Judaism
3. Jewish Apocalyptic Literature around the Time of Christ -- 4. The Greek Roots of Interpretation: The Stoics -- 5. Recommended Initial Reading -- V: The New Testament and the Second Century -- 1. The Old Testament as a Frame of Reference or Pre--understanding: Paul and the Gospels -- 2. Hebrews, 1 Peter, and Revelation: The Old Testament as Pre--understanding -- 3. Does the New Testament Employ Allegorical Interpretation or Typology? -- 4. Passages in Paul That Might Be "Difficult": Septuagint or Hebrew? -- 5. Old Testament Quotations in the Gospels, 1 Peter, and the Epistle to the Hebrews -- 6. Second--Century Interpretation and Hermeneutics -- 7. Recommended Initial Reading -- VI: From the Third to the Thirteenth Centuries -- 1. The Latin West: Hippolytus, Tertullian, Ambrose, Jerome -- 2. Alexandrian Traditions: Origen -- with Athanasius, Didymus, and Cyril -- 3. The Antiochene School: Diodore, Theodore, John Chrysostom, and Theodoret -- 4. The Bridge to the Middle Ages: Augustine and Gregory the Great -- 5. The Middle Ages: Nine Figures from Bede to Nicholas of Lyra -- 6. Recommended Initial Reading -- VII: Reform, the Enlightenment, and the Rise of Biblical Criticism -- 1. Reform: Wycliffe, Luther, and Melanchthon -- 2. Further Reform: William Tyndale and John Calvin -- 3. Protestant Orthodoxy, Pietism, and the Enlightenment -- 4. The Rise of Biblical Criticism in the Eighteenth Century -- 5. Ten Leaders of Biblical Criticism in the Nineteenth Century -- 6. Recommended Initial Reading -- VIII: Schleiermacher and Dilthey -- 1. Influences, Career, and Major Works -- 2. Schleiermacher's New Conception of Hermeneutics -- 3. Psychological and Grammatical Interpretation: The Comparative and the Divinatory -- The Hermeneutical Circle -- 4. Further Themes and an Assessment of Schleiermacher -- 5. The Hermeneutics of Wilhelm Dilthey
6. Recommended Initial Reading -- IX: Rudolf Bultmann and Demythologizing the New Testament -- 1. Influences and Earlier Concerns -- 2. Bultmann's Notions of "Myth" -- 3. Existential Interpretation and Demythologizing: Specific Examples -- 4. Criticisms of Bultmann's Program as a Whole -- 5. The Subsequent Course of the Debate: Left--Wing and Right--Wing Critics -- 6. Recommended Initial Reading -- X: Some Mid-Twentieth-Century Approaches: Barth, the New Hermeneutic, Structuralism, Post--Structuralism, and Barr's Semantics -- 1. Karl Barth's Earlier and Later Hermeneutics -- 2. The So--Called New Hermeneutic of Fuchs and Ebeling -- 3. Structuralism and Its Application to Biblical Studies -- 4. Post--Structuralism and Semantics as Applied to the Bible -- 5. Recommended Initial Reading -- XI: Hans-Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutics: The Second Turning Point -- 1. Background, Influences, and Early Life -- 2. Truth and Method Part I: Critique of "Method" and the "World" of Art and Play -- 3. Truth and Method Part II: Truth and Understanding in the Human Sciences -- 4. Truth and Method Part III: Ontological Hermeneutics and Language, with Assessments -- 5. Further Assessments of the Three Parts of Truth and Method -- 6. Recommended Initial Reading -- XII: The Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur -- 1. Background, Early Life, Influences, and Significance -- 2. The Middle Period: The Interpretation of Freud, The Conflict of Interpretations, and Metaphor -- 3. The Later Period: Time and Narrative -- 4. Oneself as Another: The Identity of the Self, "Otherness," and Narrative -- 5. Oneself as Another: Implications for Ethics -- Other Later Works -- 6. Five Assessments: Text, Author's Intention, and Creativity -- 7. Recommended Initial Reading -- XIII: The Hermeneutics of Liberation Theologies and Postcolonial Hermeneutics
1. Definition, Origins, Development, and Biblical Themes -- 2. Gustavo Gutiérrez and the Birth of Liberation Theology -- 3. The Second Stage: "Base Communities" and José Porfirio Miranda in the 1970s -- 4. The Second Stage Continued: Juan Luis Segundo, J. Severino Croatto, Leonardo Boff, and Others -- 5. The Third Stage: Postcolonial Hermeneutics from the 1980s to the Present -- 6. A Further Assessment and Evaluation -- 7. Recommended Initial Reading -- XIV: Feminist and Womanist Hermeneutics -- 1. The Public Visibility and Ministry of Women from Earliest Times -- 2. First-- and Second--Wave Feminism and Feminist Hermeneutics -- 3. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her: The Argument -- 4. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her: An Evaluation -- 5. The Fragmentation of the Second Wave -- 6. Womanist Hermeneutics -- 7. A Provisional Assessment of Feminist Hermeneutics -- 8. Recommended Initial Reading -- XV: Reader-Response and Reception Theory -- 1. Reader--Response Theory: Its Origins and Diversity -- 2. An Evaluation and the Application of the Theory to Biblical Studies -- 3. Is Allegorical Interpretation a Subcategory of Reader--Response Theory? A Suggestion -- 4. The Recent Turn to Reception Theory and Hans Robert Jauss -- 5. Reception Theory and Specific Biblical Passages -- 6. Recommended Initial Reading -- XVI: Postmodernism and Hermeneutics -- 1. Is Postmodernity Compatible with Christian Faith? Three Possible Answers -- 2. European Postmodernism: Jacques Derrida (with the later Barthes) -- 3. European Postmodernism: Jean--François Lyotard (with Jean Baudrillard) -- 4. European Postmodernism: Michel Foucault -- Knowledge and Power -- 5. American Postmodernism: Richard Rorty (with the Later Stanley Fish) -- 6. Recommended Initial Reading -- XVII: Some Concluding Comments -- 1. Divine Agency and the Authority of Scripture
2. Advances in Linguistics and Pragmatics: Politeness Theory -- 3. Brevard Childs and the Canonical Approach -- 4. Fuller Meaning, Typology, and Allegorical Interpretation -- 5. Catholic Biblical Scholarship and Two Great Turning Points -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources
ISBN:1467433950