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A short introduction to hermeneutics / David Jasper. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, (c)2004.Edition: first editionDescription: xii, 148 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780664227517
LOC classification:
  • BS476
  • BS476.J39.S567 2004
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Contents:
1. Texts and readers: Reading and writing: Introduction -- Faith and suspicion, texts and readers -- Reading and writing -- The hermeneutic circle. 2. Midrash, the Bible, and the early church: Midrash and rabbinic interpretation -- Hermeneutics in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament -- The establishment of the Christian canon and the argument from tradition -- The school of Alexandria and the school of Antioch -- Augustine, bishop of Hippo (354-430). 3. From scholasticism to the age of enlightenment: medieval hermeneutics: Thomas Aquinas (circa 1225-74) -- The medieval minds: Meister Eckhart and Thomas a Kempis -- Christian humanism: Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9-1536) -- Martin Luther (1483-1536) and John Calvin (1509-64) -- The age of reason. 4. Friedrich Schleiermacher and the age of romanticism: The Bible and history -- Johann Salomo Semler (1725-91) and the canon of scripture -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and the romantic spirit -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Confessions of an inquiring spirit', 1840 -- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and the "handwritten manuscripts". 5. The Nineteenth Century: The critical spirit and the will to believe -- David Friedrich Strauss, 'Das Leben Jesu' (1835-36) -- The quest for the historical Jesus -- Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) -- Science and religion. 6. The Twentieth Century: Introduction -- Karl Barth (1886-1986) and Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) -- Paul Ricoeur (1913- ) -- Toward the Postmodern: Jacques Derrida (1930- ). 7. Varieties of postmodern hermeneutics: The Bible as literature/the Bible in literature -- Liberation and responsibility -- Politics and postcolonialism -- From intertextuality to film, art, ad the body. Conclusion: The sacred text and the future of writing -- Final questions.
Summary: Hermeneutics defines the rules used to search out the meaning of Scripture. This book assesses major Biblical interpreters and approaches to hermeneutics from the patristic period to the present day.
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Introduction: Recommended reading -- 1. Texts and readers: Reading and writing: Introduction -- Faith and suspicion, texts and readers -- Reading and writing -- The hermeneutic circle. 2. Midrash, the Bible, and the early church: Midrash and rabbinic interpretation -- Hermeneutics in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament -- The establishment of the Christian canon and the argument from tradition -- The school of Alexandria and the school of Antioch -- Augustine, bishop of Hippo (354-430). 3. From scholasticism to the age of enlightenment: medieval hermeneutics: Thomas Aquinas (circa 1225-74) -- The medieval minds: Meister Eckhart and Thomas a Kempis -- Christian humanism: Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9-1536) -- Martin Luther (1483-1536) and John Calvin (1509-64) -- The age of reason. 4. Friedrich Schleiermacher and the age of romanticism: The Bible and history -- Johann Salomo Semler (1725-91) and the canon of scripture -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and the romantic spirit -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Confessions of an inquiring spirit', 1840 -- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and the "handwritten manuscripts". 5. The Nineteenth Century: The critical spirit and the will to believe -- David Friedrich Strauss, 'Das Leben Jesu' (1835-36) -- The quest for the historical Jesus -- Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) -- Science and religion. 6. The Twentieth Century: Introduction -- Karl Barth (1886-1986) and Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) -- Paul Ricoeur (1913- ) -- Toward the Postmodern: Jacques Derrida (1930- ). 7. Varieties of postmodern hermeneutics: The Bible as literature/the Bible in literature -- Liberation and responsibility -- Politics and postcolonialism -- From intertextuality to film, art, ad the body. Conclusion: The sacred text and the future of writing -- Final questions.

Hermeneutics defines the rules used to search out the meaning of Scripture. This book assesses major Biblical interpreters and approaches to hermeneutics from the patristic period to the present day.

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