The eclipse of Biblical narrative; a study in eighteenth and nineteenth century hermeneutics

Frei, Hans W,

The eclipse of Biblical narrative; a study in eighteenth and nineteenth century hermeneutics [print] Hans W. Frei. - New Haven, Yale University Press, (c)1974. - ix, 355 pages 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Precritical interpretation of biblical narrative -- Change in interpretation: the eighteenth century -- Anthony Collins: meaning, reference, and prophecy -- Hermeneutics and meaning-as-reference -- Biblical hermeneutics and religious apologetics -- Apologetics, criticism, and the loss of narrative interpretation -- Hermeneutics and biblical authority in German thought -- The quest for a unitary meaning -- Herder on the Bible: the realistic spirit in history -- The lack of realism in German letters -- Strauss's perfection of the "mythical" option -- Hermeneutical options at the turn of the century -- Myth and narrative meaning: a question of categories -- The hermeneutics of understanding -- "Understanding" and narrative continuity



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Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History--19th century.
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History--18th century.

BS500 BS500.F862.E255 1974