Recent Literary Approaches to the Mishnah

AJS Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Surface Irregularities ◽  
The Way

Literary approaches to rabbinic literature entered the field through biblical studies, in which scholars from different quarters and different points of reference were using them to make sense of the biblical text as it has come down to us. The literary approach took umbrage at the way in which the historical source-critical approach dissects the Bible into its constituent sources. The literary approach was an overt attempt to overcome the fractures that historical criticism had introduced into the surface of the biblical text. It proposed instead to read the text—with all of its surface irregularities, gaps, and hiatuses—as coherent and meaningful.

Regeneration af grundtvigianismen

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-102
Author(s):  
William Michelsen
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Form ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Christian View ◽  
Scientific System ◽  
Bible Reading ◽  
The Way

A Regeneration of GrundtvigianismThe Vartov Book 1983Reviewed by William MichelsenThis yearbook offers a well-balanced account of Grundtvig’s influence on Danish thought right up to 1983. “Many in the 1980s are taking courage from reading Grundtvig,” writes Birgitte Grell. He is also being used to support the theology of the women’s movement as it comes into being and to emphasize the liberating element in Luther’s preaching of the gospel, where others are emphasizing Luther’s preaching of the law. Grundtvig’s concept of “ the spirit of the people” (folkelighed) is the object of two widely differing essays, one on the basis of his poem The Spirit of the People (Folkeligheden) from 1849, the other a sharp attack on Grundtvig’s thought: unless someone has the courage to mix the gold up with copper and make it legal tender he belongs in a museum. He is also called a dreamer and a foghorn. Against this the reviewer insists that Grundtvig considered it would be an illusion to embrace the whole truth about mankind in a scientific system. His influence stemmed from his ability to arouse the imagination of others and warn against dangerous chimeras, and from his realism.In his characterization of St Luke the Evangelist, Bent Noack distinguishes between the historian and the historiographer. The reviewer believes that this distinction is also illuminating for a criticism of Grundtvig as a historian. In another article, on Danish as a subject in the comprehensive school (folkeskole), we are told that the art of story-telling has been forgotten. Grundtvig had this ability. His biblical and historical stories are re-interpretations in narrative form. This is also true of his historiography.Perhaps the most interesting is Jan Lindhardt’s article on Bible-reading, written with both gravity and humour: “When Jesus says that “I am the way, the truth and the life” it is not a postmarked claim” . Why should we read the Bible? One way or another it must be because it is about He who is the way, the truth and the life. “This does not mean that one must abandon the historico-critical approach, but it must be subordinated to the purpose or it will be comical and ridiculous.” This was what Luther did, as Jan Lindhardt showed in his book Martin Luther and shows again here. It was clear to Grundtvig that the Bible was superior to its reader, also as a historical source, that is, as a source for the Mosaic-Christian view and thus the Christian faith.

scholarly journals READING THE NEW TESTAMENT STEREOSCOPICALLY

Scriptura ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Johannes Nel
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Narrative Criticism ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Redaction Criticism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Form Part ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

This article investigates how the reading of the Bible in the segregated spheres of church, society and academy has been institutionalised in the way Biblical Studies is taught at most state universities and seminaries in South Africa. It proposes that the way students are trained for ministry should be restructured so that they are encouraged to intentionally use the hermeneutical insights they have obtained in their biblical studies to create stereoscopic readings of the Bible for use in ecclesiological settings. A stereoscopic reading of the Bible directly challenges the clear distinction that is often made between the way in which the Bible is read in the sphere of the church in contrast to that of the academic sphere. Students must not only be taught the theory of source criticism, redaction criticism, tradition criticism, narrative criticism and other approaches to the study the Bible; they must also be taught how to create material with which to help others gain a deeper understanding of the biblical text by reflecting on its inter- and intra-texts, as well as the various pre-texts, final-texts and post-texts that all form part of what the church considers to be scripture.

The Dissemination of Scottish Theology: T&T Clark

2021 ◽  
pp. 001452462110433
Author(s):  
John Riches
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
The Bible ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
The One

This chapter outlines the history of the Scottish family firm of publishers T&T Clark, which for nearly 200 years made a significant contribution to the development of an historical and critical approach to theological study. This was chiefly effected through a series of publications of mostly German-speaking works of theology and biblical studies. It is suggested that these were principally of a mediating kind, seeking to achieve a complementarity between forms of confessional Protestant belief and theology on the one hand and historical and philosophical studies on the other. This reached a climax in the early twentieth century with the publication of major works by Ritschl and Schleiermacher. Thereafter the firm’s publishing programme became more influenced by confessional forms of theology, particularly through its translation of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. Its legacy, however, remains not only in the form of Barth but of Schleiermacher and historical critical studies of the Bible.

'Job the Dog': Hélène Cixous on Wounds, Scars and the Biblical Text

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-448
Author(s):  
Hugh Pyper
Keyword(s):  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Clarice Lispector ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Way

AbstractHélène Cixous' engagement with biblical texts is a significant but neglected aspect of her work. In this essay, the biblical allusions in several of her works are traced, particularly centring around the theme of the dog and the bite or wound. The Bible represents for Cixous both an example of the unbounded writing she sees as feminine, and a text that is confined by masculine authority and taboo. These two aspects come together in her engagement with the writings of Clarice Lispector whose grammatically paradoxical phrase in Portuguese eles a biblia—'those he-bible', as translations inadequately represent it—embodies that tension. The tension between these styles of writing in the Bible opens up as a wound in the text which allows a penetration below the surface. The power of the Bible is in the way that this opening lets the reader see 'the meat we are' in an encounter with the 'root' of being.

Returning To China: Biblical Interpretation in Postcolonial Hong Kong

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archie C.C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
New Framework

AbstractThe paper aims to construct a new framework for biblical studies from the context of postcolonial Hong Kong. While present biblical scholarship has largely depended on historical-critical exegesis, biblical scholars of Asia have begun to conceive a different approach to the Bible, because of not only a new context of reading, but also a radically different cultural-political location of the reader. This location, as it is now being formulated, is a reading between East and West, between the dominant interpretation and scholarship of the formerly colonial and Western cultures and the newly arising consciousness of emerging postcolonial identities in the histories and cultures of Asia. After about some 150 years of British colonial rule, the identity of being a people of Hong Kong is highly hybridised. It is a hybrid identity of being cultural Chinese and yet pragmatically British, both a strong sense of identification with China and an unexplainable fear of being national Chinese. Such location of a reader transforms one's understanding of a biblical text such as Isaiah 56-66 and sheds a new light on the meaning of the return in some of its major passages.

scholarly journals Poging tot ’n herdefinisie van die prediking binne die raamwerk van die Reformatiese teologie

1989 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. F.J. Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Fundamental Concept ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible

An attempt to redefine praeching in terms of Reformational theology In the field of biblical studies and hermeneutics, modern research, in many aspects results in questioning the authority of the Bible as the Word of God. The consequences of these results often undermine preaching as the Word of God. Within the theology of the re formation , preaching is based upon sound exegetical study and expository of the biblical text. Hence scientific exegetical research brings the authority of preaching to a crisis. This paper is an attempt to redefine preaching in order to incorporate the results of modem research, as well as to conserve the fundamental concept of preaching as the Word of God.

Theology and the Historical-Critical Study of the Bible

2011 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Capetz
Keyword(s):  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Salient Characteristic ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Scholar

One salient characteristic of our current situation is the emergence of a growing consensus among theologians and biblical scholars alike that the time has come to “dethrone” historical criticism as the reigning paradigm of scriptural exegesis for the sake of recovering a theological interpretation of the Bible on behalf of the church.1 To illustrate this new development, I have chosen to focus on the arguments of three prominent biblical scholars, each of whom has made a sustained case about the negative effects of historical criticism upon theological exegesis: They are Brevard S. Childs, Christopher R. Seitz, and Dale B. Martin. All three scholars have close ties to Yale and, not surprisingly, they bear a sort of family resemblance to one another inasmuch as their work partakes of theological themes and concerns that have been prominent at that school in recent decades. Notwithstanding their antagonistic posture toward historical criticism, all three are gifted practitioners of the very method whose dominance they seek to overturn. Since I am not a biblical scholar, I must enter into discussion with them as a theologian who is equally concerned about the relations between biblical studies and theology. At the outset, however, it is necessary to clarify that my own theological orientation prevents me from embracing their call to depose historical criticism. As a liberal Protestant for whom historical-critical interpretation of both the biblical and the post-biblical tradition is constitutive of theology's proper task, their initial premise that historical criticism is somehow inimical to a theological treatment of the Bible strikes me as false and misleading. Contrary to the impression given by their explicit formulations, it appears that the real target of their polemics is not historical scholarship per se but, rather, the normative uses to which it is put in theologies informed by it.

Bridging the gulf between biblical scholars and theologians: Can Barth and Wright provide an answer?

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-434
Author(s):  
Maico Michielin
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Length Relationship ◽  
Biblical Texts

AbstractThere was a time when the interpretation of the Bible was a seamless integrated theological activity. Today, the separation of biblical studies from theologically interested exegesis amongst theologians encourages a sceptical arms-length relationship between Old and New Testament scholars and theologians. Theologians criticise biblical studies' so-called objective and disinterested approach to interpreting the Bible for requiring scholars of both testaments to suspend their theological convictions. Biblical scholars condemn theologians for misusing biblical texts in support of their own preconceived theological agendas. The article suggests a way to bring these divergent exegetical approaches into conversation in a charitable, yet critical fashion, by comparing Karl Barth and N. T. Wright's exegesis of Romans 3:21–4:25. It concludes that the biblical scholar's and theologian's respective sensitivity to the historical and theological sense of the biblical text can, when brought together, benefit each other's reading of the Bible.

scholarly journals Echt gebeurd? Verhalen of feiten? Over historische en literaire bijbelkritiek en de zeggenschap van de bijbel

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 345-371
Author(s):  
HM Vroom
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical History

A serious objection against Christian  faith is that the Bible is not trustworthy because the history it relates does not correspond to the facts of history. In theology this problem is “solved” by some biblical scholars by an acceptance of the research methods that are used for all literature alike while others accept the historical critique by understanding the biblical history  as a faithful but a-historical revelation. Fundamentalists reject  the historical-critical objections and stress the inerrancy of Scripture. In this contribution these three “answers” are rejected: biblical studies shall take the (real) facts serious indeed (pace inerrancy), nor jump into an a-historical revelatory history next to historical criticism (pace strong Barthian views in the “Amsterdam School”), but neither read religious scriptures all in the same way “as all literature” — but apply academic methods as is appropriate for the Hebrew and Greek Bible. 

Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
The Way

This article examines two commentaries on Leviticus, Jews in the mainstream, biblical versus post-biblical literature, and the pre-critical, critical, and post-critical stances. It describes two particular developments within biblical studies that may be ascribed to the influence of Jewish biblical scholarship. Both of them, broadly speaking, entail the recognition that the Bible (that is, the Tanakh) is a Jewish book, and both therefore legitimate the study of the Bible in its Jewish contexts. This view of the Bible is both a point of entry for Jewish scholars into critical biblical scholarship, and also the potential meeting-ground for biblical scholars with their colleagues in Jewish studies. Interaction between specialists in those fields may yield important new insights into the formation of the Jewish Bible, and into the way the Bible, in turn, has served to shape Jewish mentalities and communities throughout the ages.

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