Exegesis and history of reception: reading the New Testament today with the readers of the past
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Exegesis: A Field Going From Rupture to Rupture -- I. The Critical Turn: The Figure of the Objective Reader -- 1. A Rupture Made of Ruptures -- 2. Thinking against Tradition -- II. The Linguistic Turn: The F...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Exegesis: A Field Going From Rupture to Rupture -- I. The Critical Turn: The Figure of the Objective Reader -- 1. A Rupture Made of Ruptures -- 2. Thinking against Tradition -- II. The Linguistic Turn: The Figure of the Reader Witnessing Himself Reading -- III. The Postmodern Turn: The Figure of the Subjective Reader -- IV. Illustration: History of the Interpretation of the Character of Judas -- 1. Judas in the Tradition: The Guilty Apostle -- 2. Judas in the Historical Turn: A Human Judas -- 3. The Narrative Figure: An "Extra" in the Story -- 4. Judas in Postmodernity -- V. Summary and Question -- Chapter 2: The Tabula Rasa Illusion -- I. The Double Illusion of the Tabula Rasa -- 1. Illusion about the Newness of Accepted Ideas -- 2. Illusion about the Antiquity of Rejected Ideas -- II. Tipping Points Are Not Where You Expect Them -- 1. Conceptual Definition: What is a "Tipping Point?" -- 2. First Test Case: Mary Magdalene -- 2.1. The Traditional Figure -- 2.2. Three Tipping Points for Three Deconstructions -- 3. Second Test Case: Bathsheba -- 3.1. Save the King at All Costs -- 3.2. Putting an End to the Woman-Object Prejudice -- III. Summary and Implications -- Chapter 3: What Does "Reading with Tradition" Mean? -- I. A Part of the Hermeneutical Philosophy -- 1. The Historicity of Understanding -- 2. A Series of Operational Concepts -- II. A Well-Known Undertaking in Biblical Studies -- 1. Taking the Wirkungsgeschichte into Account -- 2. Uses and Misuses of Wirkungsgeschichte -- III. Proposal: Reading the Bible with the Readers of the Past -- 1. Conceptual Definition: Tradition -- 2. Why Read the New Testament with Tradition? -- Chapter 4: Reading with Tradition to Be Aware of Prejudices -- I. The Book Burning of Ephesus. |
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| ISBN: | 3161596544 |