Biblical Interpretation and Method

NOTE EDITORE

Since the rise of critical biblical study in the nineteenth century there has been a revolution in the way that we interpret the Bible and in the methods we employ to facilitate our reading. Professor John Barton has been a major recent influence upon such developments and this volume, written by friends, former doctoral students and colleagues, reflects upon his contribution. A generation of scholars has engaged with, adopted and further developed Professor Barton's nuanced and careful explication of method, as exemplified particularly in his book Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study. This volume is a tribute to his pioneering influence upon our field. The book divides into two parts. In the first, 'Revisiting Older Approaches', older methods in biblical studies such as source criticism and textual criticism are reviewed, both as methods and in relation to worked examples. In the second part, entitled 'Breaking the Mould', newer types of criticism such as sociological, feminist and post-colonial readings are explored, again in relation to particular texts and examples. The book asks questions about the benefits and shortcomings of the methodological tools in our biblical critical tool-box and about the way texts are themselves brought to life in ever fresh interpretative and often interdisciplinary contexts. An array of distinguished contributors comes together in this volume to pay tribute to the honorand and to explore from a diversity of angles that ever intriguing, ever 'new' book - the Bible.

SOMMARIO

1. - Source Criticism 3: Putting Source Criticism in its Place: The Flood Story as a Test Case2. - Form Criticism 15: The Limits of Form Criticism in the Study of Literature, with Reflections on Psalm 343. - Redaction Criticism 26: The Vindication of Redaction Criticism4. - Textual Criticism 37: Textual and Literary Criticism and the Book of Exodus: The Role of the Septuagint5. - Historical Criticism 52: Truth in Biblical Criticism6. - The Quest for Plain Meaning 63: Talking to the Gods in the Psalms: Pursuing Bartons Plain Meaning Approach7. - Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Study 74: The Genesis Flood Narrative in Relation to Ancient Near Eastern Flood Accounts8. - Canonical Formation 89: Canons and Curses: Some Observations on the Canon-Formula in Deuteronomy and its Afterlife9. - The Bible and the Church I 106: The Legacy of Claus Westermann for Theology and Church10. - The Bible and the Church II 120: The Bible within Systematic Theology11. - Liberationist Reading 133: Popular Interpretation of the Bible in Brazil12. - Sociological Approaches 149: And if not now, when? A Sociology of Reading Micahs Notions of the Future in Micah 4:113. - Feminist Criticism 163: Apostles, Deacons, Patrons, Co-workers, and Heads of Household: Women Leaders in the Pauline Communities14. - Canonical Approaches 176: Scriptural Author and Canonical Prophet: The Theological Implications of Literary Association in the Canon15. - Narrative Theology 189: The Evangelists Use of the Old Testament as an Implicit Overarching Narrative16. - Intertextuality 201: Intertextuality: Method and Theory in Job and Psalm 11917. - Intratextuality 214: Cross-Examining Chronicles: Adventures in the Story-World of a Notionally Historical Narrative18. - Materialist Reading 223: Materialism, Materiality, and Biblical Cults of Writing19. - Postcolonial Interpretation 243: Unequal Terms: A Postcolonial Approach to Isaiah 6120. - Cognitive Linguistics 257: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of the Concept of Defilement in Ezekiel 22:11621. - Psychological Interpretation 272: Dancing David: A Psychological Reading of 2 Samuel 622. - The Bible and the Arts 285: The Bible and Music: Hearing Elijah through the Oratorio Tradition23. - Ethics and the Bible I 297: The Case of the Confiscated Cloak: Approaching Ancient Judahite Ethics24. - Ethics and the Bible II 311: The Perverse Commitment to Overcrowding and Doubling in Genesis: Implications for Ethics and Politics

AUTORE

Paul Joyce is Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at King's College London. He studied Theology at Oxford University before completing doctoral studies in Old Testament supervised by John Barton at Oxford, where he was Kennicott Hebrew Fellow. His first post was as Lecturer and subsequently Director of Studies at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, a Theological College of the Church of England. He then moved to the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer and subsequently to Oxford University, where he was University Lecturer in Old Testament and a Fellow of St Peter's College. He served as Chairman of the Oxford Theology Faculty Board 2008-2011. He has researched and written especially on the interpretation of the books of Ezekiel and Lamentations, and also their reception. He is also interested in psychological interpretation and in the theme of hospitality in biblical and cross-cultural perspective. Katharine Dell is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Cambridge specializing in Old Testament Studies and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. She was educated at Oxford where she took her first degree in theology and then a doctorate on the book of Job supervised by John Barton. She was Lecturer in Old Testament at Ripon College Cuddesdon before moving to Cambridge in 1995. Her particular interest is in the wisdom literature of the Old Testament and she has written a number of books on Job, two on Proverbs and is currently working on the book of Ecclesiastes. She is also interested in ecological approaches to biblical texts and theological ideas about creation; and in musical interpretation. She has written both an introduction to the wisdom literature (Get Wisdom, Get Insight: An Introduction to Israel's Wisdom Literature, (DLT, 2000)) and one to the whole Old Testament (Opening the Old Testament, (Wiley Blackwell, 2008)).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199645534
• Dimensioni: 241 x 29.5 x 162 mm Ø 732 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 10 in-text black-and-white illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 382